---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001829126-24-003927"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZEOX"
cik: "0001557376"
company_name: "Zeo ScientifiX, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T06:47:35.575552+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zeo ScientifiX loses CEO and CSO; CFO Bothwell named interim CEO

## Summary
- CEO Dr. Harry Leider and CSO Dr. Howard Golub employment not renewed; both left May 31, 2024.
- Leider also removed as director; may seek severance but company believes not entitled.
- CFO Ian T. Bothwell appointed interim CEO effective June 1, 2024; board searching for permanent CEO and CSO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001829126-24-003927
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZEOX
- cik: 0001557376
- company_name: Zeo ScientifiX, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557376/000182912624003927/0001829126-24-003927-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557376/000182912624003927/zeoscientifix_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001829126-24-003927
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001829126-24-003927.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001829126-24-003927.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dr. Harry Leider departed as Director at Zeo ScientifiX, Inc..
  - Action: no longer serves
  - Role: Director
  source text: Dr. Leider no longer serves as a director of ZEO, as provided for therein.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557376/000182912624003927/0001829126-24-003927-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dr. Howard Golub departed as Chief Science Officer at Zeo ScientifiX, Inc..
  - Action: not renewed
  - Role: Chief Science Officer
  source text: the employment agreements expired and the employment of Drs. Leider and Golub by the Company ended on May 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557376/000182912624003927/0001829126-24-003927-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dr. Harry Leider departed as Chief Executive Officer at Zeo ScientifiX, Inc..
  - Action: not renewed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the employment agreements expired and the employment of Drs. Leider and Golub by the Company ended on May 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557376/000182912624003927/0001829126-24-003927-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ian T. Bothwell was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Zeo ScientifiX, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective June 1, 2024, our board of directors appointed Ian T. Bothwell, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer to serve in the additional position of Interim Chief Executive Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557376/000182912624003927/0001829126-24-003927-index.htm

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