{"url_path":"/sec/duot/8-k/2026-06-09/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-06-09","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396536/0001079973-26-000799-index.html","accession_number":"0001079973-26-000799","cik":"0001396536","ticker":"DUOT","issuer_name":"DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396536/0001079973-26-000799-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001396536","primary_entity_name":"DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC."},"word_count":404,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain\nOfficers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**\n\n \n\nDuos Technologies Group, Inc. (the “Company”)\nannounced that, effective June 8, 2026, Leah Brown, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, resumed her previous position as Senior\nVice President of Accounting. Also effective June 8, 2026, Adrian Goldfarb has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Goldfarb\nwill lead a search committee to hire a permanent Chief Financial Officer and the Company expects to announce a replacement within 60 to\n90 days.\n\n \n\nMr. Goldfarb has a long experience with the Company.\nMost recently, he has been Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer since November 2025. He also has been serving, since March\n2026, as President of Duos Technologies, Inc., overseeing the operations and planned divestment of the Company’s rail industry subsidiary.\nHe was Chief Financial Officer of the Company from April 2024 to November 2025, as well as from 2015 to 2022. Mr. Goldfarb served as a\nDirector from April 2010 to November 2020. Effective July 1, 2012, he was appointed as President and Chief Financial Officer of Information\nSystems Associates, Inc., which merged with Duos Technologies, Inc. in April 2015, upon which he agreed to continue serving the merged\ncompany, Duos Technologies Group, Inc., as Chief Financial Officer and Director. Mr. Goldfarb managed the Company’s listing on the\nNasdaq Capital Market in 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Goldfarb served as CFO for Ecosphere Technologies, overseeing growth\nfrom $0 to $24 million and profitability. Mr. Goldfarb was also Managing Director of WSI Europe, a division of the Weather Channel from\n1998 until 2002. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Goldfarb served as interim-CFO for MOWIS GmbH, a weather technology media start-up company which\nwas successfully sold to a large European media group. Mr. Goldfarb’s extensive business and financial experience includes 10 years\nat a subsidiary of Fujitsu where he served as Director of Operations for a new software venture. Mr. Goldfarb started his formal career\nat IBM and was given responsibility for an account team focused on Latin America and Southeast Asia.\n\n \n\nMr. Goldfarb also currently serves as non-Executive\nChairman of GelStat Corporation, a public company engaged in the development, marketing and support of technology for industrial security\napplications. Mr. Goldfarb is a 40-year technology industry veteran including more than 30 years in information technology and 10 years\nin the media and communications industry."}