---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-21-018167"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PHUN"
cik: "0001665300"
company_name: "Phunware, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-09-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T05:33:18.627503+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Phunware appoints Ryan Costello and Rahul Mewawalla to board; director Marcus resigns

## Summary
- Director Lori Tauber Marcus resigns effective Sept 30, 2021; resignation not due to any disagreement.
- Board appoints Rahul Mewawalla as Class I director (term expiring 2022 annual meeting).
- Board appoints Ryan Costello as Class II director (term expiring 2023 annual meeting).
- Costello is former US Congressman; Mewawalla is senior tech exec (NBCUniversal, Yahoo!, Nokia).
- Both new directors deemed independent; committee assignments pending.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-21-018167
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PHUN
- cik: 0001665300
- company_name: Phunware, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-09-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665300/000162828021018167/0001628280-21-018167-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665300/000162828021018167/phun-20210902.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-21-018167
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-21-018167.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-21-018167.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ryan Costello was appointed as Director at Phunware, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On the same date, the Board appointed Mr. Ryan Costello to serve as a Class II director with a term expiring at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665300/000162828021018167/0001628280-21-018167-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rahul Mewawalla was appointed as Director at Phunware, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 3, 2021, the Board appointed Mr. Rahul Mewawalla to serve as a Class I director with a term expiring at the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor has been duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665300/000162828021018167/0001628280-21-018167-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lori Tauber Marcus resigned as Director at Phunware, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 2, 2021, Ms. Lori Tauber Marcus notified Phunware, Inc. (the "Company") of her resignation from our board of directors (the “Board”) and from the Compensation Committee and Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, to be effective September 30, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665300/000162828021018167/0001628280-21-018167-index.htm

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