{"url_path":"/sec/duot/8-k/2026-05-20/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-05-20","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396536/0001079973-26-000704-index.html","accession_number":"0001079973-26-000704","cik":"0001396536","ticker":"DUOT","issuer_name":"DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396536/0001079973-26-000704-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001396536","primary_entity_name":"DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC."},"word_count":311,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 5.02 Departure\nof Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensation Arrangements of Certain Officers.**\n\n \n\nOn May 14,\n2026,  the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (the “Company”) elected\nDouglas Recker as a member of the Board, effective immediately. \n\n \n\nMr. Recker was named Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective April 1, 2026. He has been President\nof the Company since September 2025. Mr. Recker is a seasoned telecommunications and data center executive with over 30 years of\nexperience.  Since July 2024, Mr. Recker has been the President of Duos Edge AI, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the\nCompany, and has been a driving force behind the Company’s expansion into the Edge Data Center and colocation markets. \nMr. Recker also served from July 2024 to September 2025 as the Chief Commercial Officer of New APR Energy, LLC, with which the\nCompany has an Asset Management Agreement and in which it has a 5% equity interest. Mr. Recker was the President and Founder of\nEdgePresence LLC, an owner and operator of multi-tenant edge computing points-of-presence, from 2017 through 2023, when it was sold\nto Ubiquity LLC. Prior to that, from 2008 through 2014, Mr. Recker was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Colo5 Data Centers\nLLC, the owner of data center locations serving Fortune 100 companies, which was sold to Cologix, Inc. \n\n \n\nThere are no family\nrelationships between Mr. Recker and any director or executive officer of the Company or its subsidiaries.  There also are no transactions\nto which the Company is or was a participant in which Mr. Recker has a material interest subject to disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation\nS-K. Mr. Recker’s\nEmployment Agreement and Equity Award Agreement are described in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the\nSecurities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2025."}