---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001903596-25-000452"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XPON"
cik: "0001894954"
company_name: "Expion360 Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:43:12.603855+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Expion360 appoints Shawna Bowin as CFO; interim CFO Schaffner remains CEO

## Summary
- Brian Schaffner resigns as interim CFO effective Sept 3, 2025; stays CEO and director.
- Shawna Bowin, previously Controller, appointed CFO effective immediately.
- Bowin receives base salary of $192,000 and a one-time sign-on bonus of $192,000.
- Bowin has over 20 years of accounting experience; joined Expion360 in 2022 as Senior Accountant.
- Employment agreement includes one-year term, annual bonus eligibility, and standard restrictive covenants.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001903596-25-000452
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XPON
- cik: 0001894954
- company_name: Expion360 Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000452/0001903596-25-000452-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000452/xpon_8k.htm

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