{"url_path":"/sec/sdot/8-k/2026-07-06/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-07-06","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701756/0001731122-26-000916-index.html","accession_number":"0001731122-26-000916","cik":"0001701756","ticker":"SDOT","issuer_name":"Sadot Group Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701756/0001731122-26-000916-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001701756","primary_entity_name":"Sadot Group Inc."},"word_count":611,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;\nAppointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**\n\n \n\n**Appointment of Chief Operating Officer and Deputy\nChief Executive Officer**\n\n \n\nOn July 6, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”)\nof Sadot Group Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Aleksandr Zhandov to serve as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and\nDeputy Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Zhandov will report to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, who will continue to serve as\nthe Company’s principal executive officer.\n\n \n\nMr. Zhandov, age 44, has served since August 2021\nas an independent consultant based in Santa Monica, California, providing advisory and consulting services relating to market research,\ncybersecurity and cybercrime investigation, cyber risk assessment, digital forensics, and technology strategy for private clients and\norganizations in the United States. From May 2011 to May 2024, Mr. Zhandov held engineering roles at Archway Computer in the Los Angeles\nmetropolitan area, serving as a System Engineer and Senior System Engineer with responsibility for cybersecurity operations and information\ntechnology infrastructure support, and from December 2011 to August 2021 he also served as a Technical Account Manager at Archway Computer.\nMr. Zhandov received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IT Step Computer Academy. Mr. Zhandov has extensive professional\nexperience in the information technology and cybersecurity sectors, with a focus on systems engineering, infrastructure management, and\nenterprise security solutions.\n\n \n\nThere are no arrangements or understandings between\nMr. Zhandov and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as an officer of the Company. There are no family relationships between\nMr. Zhandov and any director or executive officer of the Company that would require disclosure under Item 401(d) of Regulation S-K. There\nare no transactions between the Company and Mr. Zhandov, and no proposed transactions, that would require disclosure under Item 404(a)\nof Regulation S-K.\n\n \n\n**Employment Agreement**\n\n \n\nIn connection with his appointment, the Company and\nMr. Zhandov entered into an Employment Agreement, dated as of July 6, 2026 (the “Employment Agreement”). The material terms\nof the Employment Agreement are summarized below.\n\n \n\nPursuant to the Employment Agreement, Mr. Zhandov\nwill serve as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer, reporting to and subordinate to the Company’s\nChief Executive Officer. Mr. Zhandov’s employment is “at-will,” meaning that either the Company or Mr. Zhandov may terminate\nthe employment relationship at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without cause, and with or without notice. Mr. Zhandov will\nreceive an annual base salary of $120,000. He will be eligible to receive discretionary annual performance bonuses and discretionary equity\nawards under the Company’s equity incentive plan(s), in each case as determined by the Board (or a committee thereof) in its sole\ndiscretion, and to participate in the Company’s employee benefit plans in accordance with their terms. No bonus or equity award\nis granted under the Employment Agreement.\n\n \n\nUpon any termination of employment, Mr. Zhandov\nwill be entitled to receive his accrued but unpaid base salary, accrued but unused vacation (to the extent required by Company\npolicy or applicable law), and unreimbursed business expenses through the date of termination. The Employment Agreement does not\nprovide for severance payments. The Employment Agreement also contains customary confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation,\nintellectual property assignment, return-of-property, and cooperation covenants, as well as a clawback provision consistent with the\nCompany’s recoupment policy and applicable law and listing standards.\n\n \n\nThe foregoing description of the Employment Agreement\ndoes not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Employment Agreement, a copy of\nwhich is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference."}