---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FKWL"
cik: "0000722572"
company_name: "FRANKLIN WIRELESS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T16:19:38.806778+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Franklin Wireless CFO Bill Bauer resigns; Reid Granados named interim CFO

## Summary
- Effective Jan 1, 2025, Bill Bauer resigned as acting CFO; will remain General Counsel and Director of Strategic Planning.
- Board appointed Reid Granados as Interim CFO, effective same date.
- Granados has 20+ years finance experience; previously senior financial exec at private e-commerce firms, Director of Finance at Ryvyl, CFO at ChargeSavvy.
- Bauer's resignation was not due to any disagreement with company's operations, policies, or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FKWL
- cik: 0000722572
- company_name: FRANKLIN WIRELESS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/722572/000168316825000051/0001683168-25-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/722572/000168316825000051/franklin_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-000051.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Reid Granados was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at FRANKLIN WIRELESS CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Also, effective January 1, 2025, the Board of Directors has appointed Reid Granados to serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/722572/000168316825000051/0001683168-25-000051-index.htm
- Executive change
  Bill Bauer resigned as Chief Financial Officer at FRANKLIN WIRELESS CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective January 1, 2025, Bill Bauer has resigned as acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/722572/000168316825000051/0001683168-25-000051-index.htm

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