---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-008888"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBUS"
cik: "0001705843"
company_name: "Cibus, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T23:39:23.407474+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cibus CEO Rory Riggs resigns; President Peter Beetham named interim CEO

## Summary
- Rory Riggs resigns as CEO, remains Chairman of the Board.
- President and COO Peter Beetham appointed Interim CEO effective immediately.
- Board will conduct a search for a permanent CEO, considering external and internal candidates.
- Beetham co-founded Cibus Global and has over 30 years of agricultural technology experience.
- Riggs cites the company's transition from development to commercial as timely for succession.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-008888
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBUS
- cik: 0001705843
- company_name: Cibus, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705843/000162828025008888/0001628280-25-008888-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705843/000162828025008888/cbus-20250224.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-008888.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Beetham was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Cibus, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Peter Beetham, the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705843/000162828025008888/0001628280-25-008888-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rory Riggs resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Cibus, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On February 24, 2025, Rory Riggs resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of Cibus, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705843/000162828025008888/0001628280-25-008888-index.htm

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