---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-22-014269"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMTK"
cik: "0001817760"
company_name: "SmartKem, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T13:08:03.286190+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SmartKemp appoints Nigel Prue as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Nigel Prue appointed CAO effective Sept 7, 2022; previously Finance Director since April 2021.
- Annual base salary of £138,000; participates in pension and life insurance scheme.
- Service agreement allows termination on 3 months' notice or payment in lieu; 'cause' provision included.
- Prue has extensive accounting experience including SOX compliance, PwC public practice, and Global Eagle Entertainment.
- No family relationships or reportable transactions with SmartKem's directors or officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-22-014269
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMTK
- cik: 0001817760
- company_name: SmartKem, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000155837022014269/0001558370-22-014269-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000155837022014269/smtk-20220907x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-22-014269
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-22-014269.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-22-014269.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nigel Prue was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at SmartKem, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: appointed Nigel Prue, the Company’s Finance Director, as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000155837022014269/0001558370-22-014269-index.htm

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