SWMR 8-K
Swarmer, Inc (SWMR)
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On July 24, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Swarmer, Inc (the “Company”) approved a realignment of the Company’s senior management team and a reallocation of the duties and responsibilities among certain of its executives, each effective immediately. In connection with the realignment, Mr. Alexander Fink, the Company’s current U.S. Chief Executive Officer and President, will assume additional responsibilities, and will become the Company’s “principal executive officer”. Mr. Fink will report directly to the Board. His compensation will remain unchanged in connection with this leadership transition.
Alexander Fink, 41, has served as our Chief Executive Officer (U.S.) since September 2025 and as President and a member of our Board since May 2023. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from May 2023 until January 2024, as our Secretary from May 2023 until September 2025 and as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from May 2023 until January 2026. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Open Press Wire Inc, a non-profit organization dedicated to free and open news content, a position he has held since its founding in November 2024. Previously, Mr. Fink founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Otherweb, Inc., a software and AI private company focused on aggregating, analyzing, and distributing content at scale from September 2021 until April 2025. In addition, Mr. Fink founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Panopteo LLC, a private consulting company specializing in military camera, drones, and similar system and software projects from November 2015 until June 2022. Previously, Mr. Fink managed engineering teams in several companies, including Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq: ZRAN); served as Vice President of Engineering at Videostitch, Inc., also known as Orah, a private company focused on camera and virtual reality product manufacturing; and led the marketing team at Ambarella Inc. (Nasdaq: AMBA), a semiconductor design company. Mr. Fink received his B.A. in Computer Sciences from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in 2006 and his M.B.A. with a focus in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Business in 2018. Mr. Fink is a citizen of Israel and a permanent resident of the U.S.
Item 8.01. Other Events.
On July 24, 2026, in connection with the management realignment, the Board approved additional changes to the Company’s senior management team.
On the same date, the Company issued a press release announcing the changes in leadership. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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| 99.1 | Press release, dated July 24, 2026. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Swarmer, Inc | ||||||
| Date: July 24, 2026 | By: | /s/ Alexander Fink | ||||
| Name: | Alexander Fink | |||||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer (U.S.) and President | |||||
Exhibit 99.1
Swarmer Promotes Garrett Kasper to CCO, Realigns Duties Among Executives
AUSTIN, Texas, July 24, 2026 — Swarmer, Inc (Nasdaq: SWMR) (“Swarmer” or the “Company”), a drone autonomy software company whose technology has supported more than 100,000 real-world combat missions in Ukraine since April 2024, today announced a promotion and realignment of duties among its executive leadership team.
Garrett Kasper Promoted to Chief Communications Officer
Swarmer promoted Garrett Kasper to Chief Communications Officer in recognition of his contributions since joining Swarmer as vice president of communications & marketing in December 2025. Kasper brings 30 years of communications leadership across the defense, aerospace, intelligence, cybersecurity, transportation, biotechnology, and health care industries. Prior to joining Swarmer, he managed external communications and media relations for several programs at L3Harris Technologies, including the VAMPIRE Counter-UAS system, which has been used extensively in Ukraine. In his new position, Kasper will continue to lead Swarmer’s global marketing, branding, and corporate communications strategy as the Company scales.
“Garrett has done phenomenal work with top names in both the defense industry and the military, and has been an instrumental leader at Swarmer,” said Alexander Fink, Chief Executive Officer (U.S.) and President of Swarmer. “Within a short period of time, he has demonstrated the ability to communicate effectively under pressure, making him the ideal leader to spearhead our communications and marketing strategy as we grow.”
Kasper’s career began in 1996 as a Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Navy where he personally conducted more than 500 media embarkations during kinetic operations in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, served as the spokesperson for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and was selected to be a member of the Navy’s flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels. As a reservist, he served as a strategic public affairs advisor to senior leaders at U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Transportation Command, and he deployed for a year to Cuba as Director of the Joint Information Bureau for Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2020. He retired from the Navy Reserve on June 1, 2026, as a highly decorated captain.
Serhii Kupriienko to Lead New Innovation Unit, Swarmer Labs
Serhii Kupriienko will continue as Chief Executive Officer (Global), with his focus shifting to defining and executing the Company’s long-term technology and innovation strategy. Kupriienko will now lead Swarmer Labs, the Company’s newly created advanced research and innovation division. Under his leadership, Swarmer Labs will accelerate the development of next-generation artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies designed for the modern battlefield.
“It is critical that we balance short-term delivery with long-term innovation,” said Phillip Wagenheim, Vice Chairman of Swarmer’s board of directors. “We look forward to Serhii’s driven approach to cutting-edge research in AI and advanced autonomy to define Swarmer’s roadmap for the years ahead.”
Alexander Fink’s Oversight Expands to Include HR, Finance, and Operations
In connection with the management realignment, Fink’s responsibilities have been expanded to include oversight of the Company’s human resources, finance, and operations in addition to his existing responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer (U.S.) and President. Fink will now report directly to Swarmer’s board of directors.
About Swarmer
Swarmer™ is a defense technology company that specializes in vendor-agnostic software which allows one operator to intuitively control hundreds of autonomous platforms in real time. Swarmer’s primary mission areas include autonomous swarm coordination, integration of multi-domain unmanned systems and AI-powered autonomy software for distributed operations. Swarmer is not a drone manufacturer and does not depend on any single platform, supplier or hardware lifecycle. Instead, Swarmer operates at the intelligence layer, developing autonomy, coordination and decision-making software that enables large numbers of low-cost unmanned systems to operate collectively as one coherent, resilient force. Swarmer’s technology has been rigorously validated in real-world kinetic environments and was first deployed in combat operations in Ukraine in April 2024. Since then, it has completed more than 100,000 combat missions, generating terabytes of proprietary data that informs its machine-learning models and enables the replication of advanced pilot performance at scale. Swarmer’s routine use in combat missions generates continuous streams of telemetry, sensor data and operational feedback which are then used to refine performance, increase resilience and accelerate learning. Swarmer has headquarters in Austin, Texas, and maintains operations and teams in Ukraine, Poland and Estonia.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, statements regarding the Company’s expected growth and its plans to scale its global organization, including the expansion and realignment of its leadership team and its product, engineering, integration, and field operations functions and the anticipated benefits of the changes described in this release; the expected contributions of Swarmer Labs and its planned artificial intelligence and next-generation autonomy research; and the Company’s ability to execute on its business objectives. Words such as “will,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “intend,” “continue,” “confident,” “positioning,” “scale,” “in the years ahead,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words.
These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, and beliefs and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the Company’s ability to attract, retain, integrate, and effectively transition members of its senior leadership team, and the risk that the leadership realignment described in this release does not produce the anticipated benefits; the Company’s ability to develop its autonomy software; the Company’s ability to manage growth; and the other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Swarmer’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent registration statement on Form S-1, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. Swarmer undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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