---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001829126-24-006833"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUCY"
cik: "0001808377"
company_name: "Innovative Eyewear Inc"
filed_at: "2024-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T13:24:57.153703+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Innovative Eyewear appoints Oswald Gayle as Co-Chief Financial Officer

## Summary
- Appointment effective October 11, 2024; Gayle will act as Principal Financial and Accounting Officer.
- Gayle joined the Company as VP of Finance (Jan 2022) and was promoted to SVP of Finance in Aug 2024.
- Over 30 years of finance experience including roles at Vaco Resources and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- No family relationships with directors or executive officers; no disclosable transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001829126-24-006833
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUCY
- cik: 0001808377
- company_name: Innovative Eyewear Inc
- filed_at: 2024-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808377/000182912624006833/0001829126-24-006833-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808377/000182912624006833/innovative_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001829126-24-006833
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001829126-24-006833.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001829126-24-006833.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Oswald Gayle was appointed as Co-Chief Financial Officer at Innovative Eyewear Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Co-Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On October 11, 2024, the Board of Directors of Innovative Eyewear Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Oswald Gayle as the Company’s Co-Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1808377/000182912624006833/0001829126-24-006833-index.htm

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