secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (ASTS)
CIK:        0001780312
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001493152-22-011486
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AST SpaceMobile names Sean Wallace as CFO, replacing retired Thomas Severson
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- Thomas Severson retired as CFO, COO, and director; no disagreements with the company.
- Sean Wallace appointed EVP and CFO effective May 10, 2022; previously CFO of Cogent Communications.
- Wallace receives $250k base salary and 700,000 RSUs (400k time-vesting over 4 years, 300k performance-based).
- Severance: 75% salary for 9 months, accelerated vesting on 100k RSUs, plus performance RSUs if targets met within 120 days.
- Company preparing for BlueWalker 3 test satellite launch in summer 2022.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000149315222011486/0001493152-22-011486-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000149315222011486/form8-k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-22-011486

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