---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-016325"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JSDA"
cik: "0001083522"
company_name: "JONES SODA CO."
filed_at: "2023-06-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T08:55:34.945742+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jones Soda appoints former Kellogg CFO Ronald Dissinger as director and Audit Committee chair

## Summary
- Dissinger appointed to board and as Audit Committee chair effective May 25, 2023.
- Former SVP and global CFO of Kellogg Company with over 30 years of CPG finance experience.
- Received 450,000 stock options at $0.209 exercise price, vesting over three years starting May 2024.
- Appointment runs until next annual meeting of stockholders; no material transaction involvement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-016325
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JSDA
- cik: 0001083522
- company_name: JONES SODA CO.
- filed_at: 2023-06-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083522/000143774923016325/0001437749-23-016325-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083522/000143774923016325/jsda20230601_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ronald Dissinger was appointed as Director and Audit Committee Chair at JONES SODA CO..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director and Audit Committee Chair
  source text: On May 25, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Jones Soda Co. (the “Company”) appointed Ronald Dissinger to serve as a director on the Board until the Company’s next meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083522/000143774923016325/0001437749-23-016325-index.htm

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