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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-014084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T00:34:25.315479+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals CFO Judd Merrill to resign effective May 16, 2025; consulting through August

## Summary
- CFO Judd Merrill notified resignation effective May 16, 2025, after filing Q1 10-Q.
- Short-term consulting arrangement through August 2025 to assist transition.
- No replacement CFO named yet.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-014084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-01T23:59:59+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/1621832/000143774925014084/0001437749-25-014084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925014084/aqms20250430_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-014084
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-014084.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-014084.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Judd Merrill resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Aqua Metals, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 25, 2025, Judd Merrill notified us that he intends to resign as our Chief Financial Officer effective on May 16, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925014084/0001437749-25-014084-index.htm

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