---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001903596-25-000164"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XPON"
cik: "0001894954"
company_name: "Expion360 Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T21:23:12.448419+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Expion360 appoints Carson Heagen as COO effective April 1, 2025, replacing Paul Shoun

## Summary
- Paul Shoun steps down as COO effective April 1, 2025; remains President and Chairman of the Board.
- Carson Heagen, formerly VP of Operations, appointed COO immediately.
- Heagen's employment agreement: base salary $180k, one-year term, bonus eligible, 2-year non-compete.
- Heagen has over 10 years experience in ops, finance, supply chain; joined Expion360 in 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001903596-25-000164
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XPON
- cik: 0001894954
- company_name: Expion360 Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000164/0001903596-25-000164-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000164/xpon_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001903596-25-000164.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carson Heagen was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Expion360 Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: the Board appointed Carson Heagen, who currently serves as the Company’s Vice President of Operations, to serve as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately upon Mr. Shoun’s resignation as of the Resignation Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000164/0001903596-25-000164-index.htm
- Executive change
  Paul Shoun resigned as Chief Operating Officer at Expion360 Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Paul Shoun, the Co-Founder, President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Expion360 Inc. (the “Company”), is resigning from his role as Chief Operating Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000164/0001903596-25-000164-index.htm

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