---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001818331-22-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WGS"
cik: "0001818331"
company_name: "GeneDx Holdings Corp."
filed_at: "2022-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T13:42:08.135225+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sema4 President and COO James Coffin departs; gets $550K severance, bonus, option acceleration

## Summary
- James Coffin, President and COO, leaves for personal reasons effective Feb 1, 2022.
- Separation agreement includes $550,000 cash severance (12 months base salary) and $180,370 bonus.
- COBRA premiums reimbursed for up to 12 months; accelerated vesting of 25,425 stock options.
- Extended post-termination exercise period for vested options through May 30, 2022.
- CEO Eric Schadt will absorb Coffin's responsibilities; no successor named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001818331-22-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WGS
- cik: 0001818331
- company_name: GeneDx Holdings Corp.
- filed_at: 2022-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818331/000181833122000022/0001818331-22-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818331/000181833122000022/smfr-20220125.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001818331-22-000022
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001818331-22-000022.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001818331-22-000022.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James Coffin departed as President and Chief Operating Officer at GeneDx Holdings Corp..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: James Coffin, Ph.D., the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sema4 Holdings Corp. (the “Company”), will leave the Company for personal reasons, effective February 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818331/000181833122000022/0001818331-22-000022-index.htm

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