---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-009959"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APT"
cik: "0000884269"
company_name: "ALPHA PRO TECH LTD"
filed_at: "2023-04-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T03:57:06.800504+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alpha Pro Tech appoints Benjamin A. Shaw to board as audit committee chair

## Summary
- Benjamin A. Shaw, CPA, elected to fill board vacancy left by Russell Manock's passing.
- Appointed Chair of Audit Committee and member of Nominating/Governance Committee.
- Board determined Shaw is independent and qualifies as audit committee financial expert.
- Appointment restores compliance with NYSE American's audit committee financial sophistication requirement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-009959
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APT
- cik: 0000884269
- company_name: ALPHA PRO TECH LTD
- filed_at: 2023-04-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884269/000143774923009959/0001437749-23-009959-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884269/000143774923009959/apt20230411_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-009959
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-009959.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-009959.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Benjamin A. Shaw was elected as Director at ALPHA PRO TECH LTD.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 6, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. (the “Company”), in accordance with the Company’s bylaws and upon the recommendation of the Nominating/Governance Committee of the Board, elected Benjamin A. Shaw to fill the vacancy on the Board created by the passing of Russell Manock.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884269/000143774923009959/0001437749-23-009959-index.htm

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