---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-24-000572"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "BEEM"
cik: "0001398805"
company_name: "Beam Global"
filed_at: "2024-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T13:11:12.692701+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Beam Global names Mark Myers COO; $250K salary plus 50,000-share option grant

## Summary
- Mark Myers appointed COO effective Jan 16, 2024; previously Senior Director at thyssenkrupp Bilstein.
- Annual salary of $250,000; eligible for annual bonus up to 50% of base salary.
- Received option to purchase 50,000 shares at $5.90, vesting monthly over 4 years from Jan 31, 2024.
- COO role is new; company has three manufacturing facilities and hundreds of employees.
- Myers has over 20 years experience in lean manufacturing and scaling operations, including General Atomics and McKinsey.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-24-000572
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: BEEM
- cik: 0001398805
- company_name: Beam Global
- filed_at: 2024-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1398805/000168316824000572/0001683168-24-000572-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1398805/000168316824000572/beam_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-000572
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-000572.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-000572.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Myers was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Beam Global.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On January 30, 2024, Beam Global (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Mark Myers, 48, as Chief Operating Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1398805/000168316824000572/0001683168-24-000572-index.htm

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