---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001758766-23-000132"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STEM"
cik: "0001758766"
company_name: "STEM, INC."
filed_at: "2023-11-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T21:16:57.279916+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stem appoints Ira Birns as independent director and Audit Committee chair

## Summary
- Ira Birns appointed to Board of Directors as Class II director effective November 6, 2023.
- Birns will chair the Audit Committee; brings extensive finance, M&A, and energy sector experience.
- He is EVP and CFO of World Kinect Corporation (Fortune 100 energy management company).
- Received pro-rata grant of 13,836 RSUs vesting on June 7, 2024 under standard non-employee director compensation.
- Birns is a CPA and Certified Treasury Professional with BBA in Public Accounting from Hofstra.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001758766-23-000132
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STEM
- cik: 0001758766
- company_name: STEM, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-11-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758766/000175876623000132/0001758766-23-000132-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758766/000175876623000132/stem-20231026.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001758766-23-000132
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001758766-23-000132.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001758766-23-000132.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ira Birns was appointed as Class II director at STEM, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II director
  source text: appointed Mr. Ira Birns to the Board as a Class II director, effective November 6, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758766/000175876623000132/0001758766-23-000132-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ira Birns was appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee at STEM, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chairman of the Audit Committee
  source text: the Board appointed Mr. Birns to be chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”), effective as of that date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758766/000175876623000132/0001758766-23-000132-index.htm

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