---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-22-034484"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLNK"
cik: "0001429764"
company_name: "Blink Charging Co."
filed_at: "2022-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T09:29:24.010421+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blink Charging appoints Mark Pastrone as Chief Operating Officer; base salary $275K

## Summary
- Mark Pastrone appointed COO of Blink Charging Co., effective Nov 29, 2022; previously COO of acquired SemaConnect.
- Base salary $275,000; eligible for annual cash bonus up to 40% of base salary and equity awards of 40% of base salary in restricted stock.
- Employment term expires June 14, 2023, with automatic one-year renewals unless nonrenewed.
- Severance upon termination without cause: up to 12 months of base salary, based on months of employment.
- Pastrone also subject to standard confidentiality and non-competition agreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-22-034484
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLNK
- cik: 0001429764
- company_name: Blink Charging Co.
- filed_at: 2022-12-05T23:59:59+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/1429764/000149315222034484/0001493152-22-034484-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429764/000149315222034484/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-22-034484.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Pastrone was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Blink Charging Co..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On November 29, 2022, Mark Pastrone, the current Chief Operating Officer of the Company’s SemaConnect LLC subsidiary, was appointed by the Company’s Board of Directors to assume the position and elevated duties of the Chief Operating Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429764/000149315222034484/0001493152-22-034484-index.htm

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