---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-003414"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLIN"
cik: "0001378590"
company_name: "Bridgeline Digital, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:18:07.881521+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bridgeline appoints Michael Ketslakh to board after Scott Landers resigns

## Summary
- Scott Landers resigned from Board effective Feb 5, 2025; no disagreement cited.
- Michael Ketslakh appointed Class II Director effective Feb 10, 2025, term through 2025 annual meeting.
- Ketslakh is founder/president of National Diagnostic Services, operating in 33 states.
- Ketslakh to receive standard non-employee director compensation per prior 10-K.
- Board committees for Ketslakh not yet assigned; will be considered in ordinary course.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-003414
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLIN
- cik: 0001378590
- company_name: Bridgeline Digital, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378590/000143774925003414/0001437749-25-003414-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378590/000143774925003414/blin20250210_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-003414.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Ketslakh was appointed as Class II Director at Bridgeline Digital, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On February 10, 2025, the Board appointed Michael Ketslakh to serve as a Class II Director of the Board, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. Landers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378590/000143774925003414/0001437749-25-003414-index.htm
- Executive change
  Scott Landers resigned as Director at Bridgeline Digital, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 5, 2025, Scott Landers announced his resignation from the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (the “Company”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378590/000143774925003414/0001437749-25-003414-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.