---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-030303"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BMRA"
cik: "0000073290"
company_name: "BIOMERICA INC"
filed_at: "2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T03:12:33.298577+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Biomerica appoints former Meridian CEO Jack Kenny to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Appointment effective August 25, 2023; Board expanded to add independent director.
- Kenny will chair Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and serve on Audit Committee.
- Annual cash fee of $52,500 (paid quarterly); equity compensation to be determined later.
- Kenny previously led Meridian Bioscience as CEO, overseeing its $1.53B all-cash sale.
- Kenny to support launch of inFoods IBS test, which targets 40M+ U.S. IBS patients.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-030303
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BMRA
- cik: 0000073290
- company_name: BIOMERICA INC
- filed_at: 2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73290/000149315223030303/0001493152-23-030303-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73290/000149315223030303/form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-030303
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-030303.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-030303.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jack Kenny was appointed as Independent Director at BIOMERICA INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Independent Director
  source text: Effective August 25, 2023, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Biomerica, Inc. (the “Company”) expanded the size of the Board by one member and elected and appointed Mr. Jack Kenny to serve as an independent member of the Board effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73290/000149315223030303/0001493152-23-030303-index.htm

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