---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-24-000175"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NCRA"
cik: "0001756180"
company_name: "NOCERA, INC."
filed_at: "2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T00:59:10.124003+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nocera appoints Feng-Hua Chen as COO, succeeding retiring Hong-Wen Ruan

## Summary
- COO Hong-Wen Ruan retired effective Jan 4, 2024; Feng-Hua Chen appointed as new COO effective Jan 5, 2024.
- Chen brings over 30 years of experience in financial services, construction, sales, and business development.
- Annual salary of $20,000; granted 100,000 Class B warrants at $1.50 per share, vesting biannually over 2 years.
- Employment agreement has a 2-year term, automatically renewable month-to-month thereafter.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-24-000175
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NCRA
- cik: 0001756180
- company_name: NOCERA, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756180/000168316824000175/0001683168-24-000175-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756180/000168316824000175/nocera_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hong-Wen Ruan resigned as Chief Operating Officer at NOCERA, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On January 4, 2024, Ruan Hong (“Howard”) Wen, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, notified the Company of his intent to resign effective January 4, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756180/000168316824000175/0001683168-24-000175-index.htm
- Executive change
  Feng-Hua Chen was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at NOCERA, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On January 4, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) appointed Feng-Hua (“Howard”) Chen as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, effective as of January 5, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756180/000168316824000175/0001683168-24-000175-index.htm

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