---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-24-002737"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "REKR"
cik: "0001697851"
company_name: "Rekor Systems, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T02:44:07.006383+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rekor Systems appoints Anne Townsend to Board, expands to nine members

## Summary
- Anne Townsend appointed to Board effective March 1, 2024; Board expands to 9 members.
- Townsend is Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE, bringing cybersecurity and smart city expertise.
- Board chartered a Technology and Social Responsibility Committee led by Prof. Sanjay Sarma of MIT.
- Townsend receives 50,000 RSUs vesting over one year as part of director compensation.
- She will be nominated for election at 2024 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-24-002737
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: REKR
- cik: 0001697851
- company_name: Rekor Systems, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1697851/000165495424002737/0001654954-24-002737-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1697851/000165495424002737/rekr_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-002737
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-002737.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-002737.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Anne Townsend was appointed as Director at Rekor Systems, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 1, 2024, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Rekor Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an increase to the size of the Board by one seat, to nine members, and appointed Anne Townsend to fill the resulting vacancy.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1697851/000165495424002737/0001654954-24-002737-index.htm

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