---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-013857"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NNE"
cik: "0001923891"
company_name: "Nano Nuclear Energy Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T22:50:52.679427+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nano Nuclear appoints former DOE deputy chief data officer Seth Berl to board; executives get compensation revision

## Summary
- Dr. Seth Berl appointed independent director effective June 1, 2025; annual cash comp $50,000 plus RSU grant of $437,700 (15,000 RSUs at $29.18).
- CEO Jay Jiang Yu new base salary $650,000, one-time cash bonus $600,000, RSU grant $4,018,086 vesting over three years.
- Other executives: Walker base $500k, bonus $300k, RSU $2.5M; Garcha $400k, $200k, $1.5M; Heidet $400k, $100k, $804k.
- Independent directors Law, Hare, Yu each get $50k cash and RSU grant $100,029; Berl receives larger RSU grant of $437,700.
- Berl brings experience from Intel (current) and DOE; board expands to six members with four independent.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-013857
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NNE
- cik: 0001923891
- company_name: Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1923891/000164117225013857/0001641172-25-013857-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1923891/000164117225013857/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-013857.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dr. Seth Berl was appointed as Independent Director at Nano Nuclear Energy Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Independent Director
  source text: On June 1, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Nano Nuclear Energy Inc, a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), appointed Dr. Seth Berl as an independent director of the Company and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1923891/000164117225013857/0001641172-25-013857-index.htm

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