---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-025536"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T10:57:24.511296+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals terminates executive Dave McMurtry without cause, effective Sept 1, 2024

## Summary
- Company exercised option under Amended Executive Employment Agreement to terminate Dave McMurtry without cause.
- Termination effective September 1, 2024; no successor or interim appointment announced.
- No reason for termination disclosed; no severance or other terms provided in filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-025536
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774924025536/0001437749-24-025536-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774924025536/aqms20240808_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-025536
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-025536.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-025536.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dave McMurtry was terminated as other_named_officer at Aqua Metals, Inc..
  - Action: terminated
  source text: On August 2, 2024, Aqua Metals, Inc. exercised its option under the Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement with Dave McMurtry to terminate his employment without cause, effective September 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774924025536/0001437749-24-025536-index.htm

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