---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-014753"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNTN"
cik: "0001861657"
company_name: "Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T14:03:26.605901+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tharimmune CEO resigns; appoints Sireesh Appajosyula as new CEO, adds director

## Summary
- CEO Randy Milby resigned for personal reasons; receives $133,500 settlement and accelerated vesting of unvested options, contingent on $3M+ financing.
- Sireesh Appajosyula appointed CEO; employment agreement provides $285K base salary, 60% bonus target, 5-year term, severance benefits.
- Vincent LoPriore, previously named Executive Chairman, entered employment agreement with same $285K base, bonus, and severance terms.
- James Gordon Liddy appointed to the Board effective June 11, 2025.
- Milby's unvested stock options vested immediately upon resignation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-014753
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNTN
- cik: 0001861657
- company_name: Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861657/000164117225014753/0001641172-25-014753-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861657/000164117225014753/form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-014753
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-014753.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-014753.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Randy Milby resigned as Chief Executive Officer and Director at Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and Director
  source text: Randy Milby pursuant to which he resigned for personal reasons from his positions as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861657/000164117225014753/0001641172-25-014753-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sireesh Appajosyula was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board appointed Sireesh Appajosyula as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861657/000164117225014753/0001641172-25-014753-index.htm
- Executive change
  James Gordon Liddy was appointed as Director at Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board appointed James Gordon Liddy as a member of the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861657/000164117225014753/0001641172-25-014753-index.htm

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