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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-050698"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAST"
cik: "0001515139"
company_name: "WASTE ENERGY CORP."
filed_at: "2024-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T01:33:07.910971+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waste Energy Corp names Scott Gallagher Chairman and CEO; Cameron Chell steps down as Chairman

## Summary
- Cameron Chell resigns as Board Chairman and director, becomes Chairman of Advisory Board effective Dec 19, 2024.
- Shelly Murphy also resigns from Board; no disagreement cited.
- Scott Gallagher, previously President, appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO.
- W. Scott McBride, founder of EnergyFX, joins Board effective Dec 19, 2024.
- Leadership changes align with company's pivot from Web3/blockchain to waste-to-energy via Pyrolysis.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-050698
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAST
- cik: 0001515139
- company_name: WASTE ENERGY CORP.
- filed_at: 2024-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1515139/000149315224050698/0001493152-24-050698-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1515139/000149315224050698/form8-k.htm

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