secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ESS Tech, Inc. (GWH)
CIK:        0001819438
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001819438-25-000019
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.35
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

ESS Tech appoints Jigish Trivedi as COO effective August 18, 2025
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- Jigish Trivedi appointed COO effective Aug 18, 2025; previously SVP Operations at Electric Hydrogen Co. and senior roles at Micron and First Solar.
- Annual base salary of $375,000; target bonus up to 75% of salary; 275,000 RSUs vesting over four years.
- On termination without cause: 6 months base salary severance and accelerated vesting of RSUs scheduled to vest in 12 months.
- Employment agreement with standard indemnification; full text to be filed as exhibit to next 10-Q.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819438/000181943825000019/0001819438-25-000019-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819438/000181943825000019/wk-20250812.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001819438-25-000019

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