---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001603756-23-000066"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001603756"
company_name: "Axonics, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T04:49:36.447843+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Axonics CFO Dan Dearen retires; appoints Kari Keese as CFO with new employment agreement

## Summary
- Dan L. Dearen retired as President and CFO effective Oct 2, 2023; Kari Keese appointed CFO and Principal Financial Officer.
- Keese receives $425,000 base salary, 35% target bonus for 2023 (50% thereafter), and 25,000 RSU grant.
- CEO Raymond W. Cohen entered new employment agreement through Oct 2, 2025, with $800,000 base salary and up to 100% bonus.
- Cohen's severance includes 18 months salary + bonus if terminated without cause, or 30 months salary + bonus on change-in-control termination.
- Keese's agreement runs through Oct 2, 2028; severance includes 12 months salary, bonus, and COBRA coverage.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001603756-23-000066
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001603756
- company_name: Axonics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- 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/1603756/000160375623000066/0001603756-23-000066-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603756/000160375623000066/axnx-20231002.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001603756-23-000066.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kari Keese was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Axonics, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Company has appointed Kari Keese to serve as Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) of the Company effective upon Mr. Dearen’s exit.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603756/000160375623000066/0001603756-23-000066-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dan L. Dearen retired as President and Chief Financial Officer at Axonics, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Dan L. Dearen, President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) of the Company, will retire from the Company effective October 2, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603756/000160375623000066/0001603756-23-000066-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.