---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-22-023786"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SONM"
cik: "0001178697"
company_name: "DNA X, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T21:54:48.130517+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonim Technologies hires Peter Hao Liu as CEO with $450K salary and 4M share option grant

## Summary
- Peter Hao Liu appointed CEO effective April 14, 2022; employment agreement signed August 18, 2022.
- Annual base salary of $450,000 with retroactive lump sum payment for period since April 14.
- Options to purchase 4,014,419 shares of common stock, vesting over 4 years, subject to board and shareholder approval.
- Options have 10-year term, exercise price at 100% of fair market value on grant date.
- Employment is at-will; includes confidentiality, non-disparagement, and cooperation provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-22-023786
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SONM
- cik: 0001178697
- company_name: DNA X, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178697/000149315222023786/0001493152-22-023786-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178697/000149315222023786/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-22-023786.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Hao Liu was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at DNA X, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On August 20, 2022, Sonim Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), entered into an employment agreement (the “ Employment Agreement ”) with Peter Hao Liu in connection with his role as Chief Executive Officer (“ CEO ”) of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1178697/000149315222023786/0001493152-22-023786-index.htm

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