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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001819493-25-000093"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XOS"
cik: "0001819493"
company_name: "Xos, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T16:25:24.126284+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Xos Inc. Enters New Employment Agreements with CEO Semler and COO Sordoni; Shareholders Approve Equity Plan Amendment

## Summary
- On June 26, 2025, Xos entered employment agreements with CEO Dakota Semler and COO Giordano Sordoni, replacing prior offer letters from 2016.
- Agreements provide annual base salary of $450,000 and target short-term incentive bonus of 100% of base salary for each executive.
- Severance includes 12 months base salary, average or target STIP bonus, pro-rata bonus, healthcare premium payments, and full acceleration of equity awards.
- At June 24 annual meeting, shareholders re-elected directors Ed Rapp and Michael Richardson, ratified Grant Thornton LLP as auditor, and approved a 3.1 million share increase to the 2021 equity plan.
- Shareholder votes: 3,489,533 for Rapp; 3,499,197 for Richardson; 4,765,757 for auditor; 3,315,487 for equity plan amendment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001819493-25-000093
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XOS
- cik: 0001819493
- company_name: Xos, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819493/000181949325000093/0001819493-25-000093-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819493/000181949325000093/xos-20250624.htm

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