secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Expion360 Inc. (XPON)
CIK:        0001894954
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001903596-25-000486
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 1.01, 3.02, 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Expion360 CEO and President resign; new CEO Joseph Hammer appointed; raises $1.3M private placement
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- CEO Brian Schaffner and President Paul Shoun resigned Oct 16; each gets 24 months severance and 100k RSUs.
- Joseph Hammer appointed CEO and Chairman; annual base salary $330k; also advises lead investor Pioneer Capital.
- Scott Burell appointed independent director; also CFO of Trailblazer Merger Corp I (TBMC).
- Company raised ~$1.1M net from private placement of 613,077 shares at $1.65 plus pre-funded warrant.
- Proceeds to pay severance obligations and for working capital.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000486/0001903596-25-000486-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1894954/000190359625000486/xpon_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001903596-25-000486

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