---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001534969-21-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SERA"
cik: "0001534969"
company_name: "SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC."
filed_at: "2021-11-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T04:50:31.490017+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sera Prognostics appoints Sandra A.J. Lawrence to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Appointed effective Nov 29, 2021 as Class II director with term expiring at 2023 annual meeting.
- Received non-qualified stock option with $240,000 grant date fair value, vesting in 36 monthly installments.
- Entitled to annual cash retainer of $35,000, prorated for 2021 service.
- Lawrence brings extensive board experience including Evergy, American Shared Hospital Services, and Recology.
- Former EVP/CFO of Children's Mercy Hospital; holds MBA from Harvard Business School.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001534969-21-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SERA
- cik: 0001534969
- company_name: SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-11-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1534969/000153496921000023/0001534969-21-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1534969/000153496921000023/sera-20211129.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001534969-21-000023.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sandra A.J. Lawrence was appointed as Director at SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On November 29, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sera Prognostics, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Sandra A.J. Lawrence, effective November 29, 2021 (the “Effective Date”), as a director to the Board to serve as a Class II Director with a term expiring at the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1534969/000153496921000023/0001534969-21-000023-index.htm

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