---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-25-006003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCND"
cik: "0000087802"
company_name: "SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T23:22:03.728630+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Scientific Industries CFO departs; CEO Santos named interim CFO; contracts extended

## Summary
- CFO Nicholas Lavacca left May 19, 2025; CEO Helena Santos appointed interim CFO.
- Santos' employment extended to June 30, 2026; base salary raised to $200,000 from $175,000.
- Chairman John Moore's employment at subsidiary extended to June 30, 2026; base salary decreased to $165,000 from $175,000.
- Both extensions effective July 1, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-25-006003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCND
- cik: 0000087802
- company_name: SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87802/000165495425006003/0001654954-25-006003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87802/000165495425006003/scnd_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-006003
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-006003.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Helena Santos was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 20, 2025, the Company announced the appointment of Ms. Helena Santos as its interim CFO until a suitable candidate can be appointed by the Company’s Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87802/000165495425006003/0001654954-25-006003-index.htm
- Executive change
  Nicholas Lavacca departed as Chief Financial Officer at SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: left
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Nicholas Lavacca, who had served as the Company’s CFO since April 18, 2025, left the Company on May 19, 2025 to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87802/000165495425006003/0001654954-25-006003-index.htm

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