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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 26, 2025

 

INMUNE BIO INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

Nevada   001-38793   47-5205835
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer
of incorporation)       Identification No.)

 

225 NE Mizner Blvd., Suite 640, Boca Raton, Florida 33432

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

(561) 710-0512

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, If Changed Since Last Report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
   
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per shares   INMB   The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company ☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mart if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 

 


 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

Moss Employment Agreement

 

On November 26, 2025, INmune Bio Inc. (the “Company”) and David J. Moss, the Company’s President and Chief Executive entered into an employment agreement. Pursuant to the employment agreement, beginning on November 1, 2025, Mr. Moss will be paid a base salary of $500,000 per annum and is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus with a target amount of 50% of his annual base salary, prorated for the number of days employed during the applicable calendar year.

 

Mr. Moss was also granted an option to purchase 800,000 shares of the Company’s common stock under the Second Amended and Restated INmune Bio Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan (as amended from time to time, the “Plan”). Upon a Change of Control (as defined in the Plan), any unvested portion of the option will become immediately vested and exercisable, subject to Mr. Moss’s continued service up to the closing date of the Change of Control.

 

In the event of an Involuntary Termination (as defined in the employment agreement), Mr. Moss will be entitled to receive (i) 18 months of his base salary, paid in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll, (ii) a prorated annual bonus, and (iii) payment of COBRA premiums (or a taxable equivalent payment) for up to 18 months, in each case subject to his execution and non-revocation of a separation agreement and release of claims.

 

Ellspermann Employment Agreement

 

On November 26, 2025, the Company and Cory Ellspermann, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer entered into an employment agreement. Pursuant to the employment agreement, beginning on November 1, 2025, Mr. Ellspermann will be paid a base salary of $275,000 per annum and is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus with a target amount of 40% of his annual base salary.

 

Mr. Ellspermann was also granted an option to purchase 300,000 shares of the Company’s common stock under the Plan. Upon a Change of Control (as defined in the Plan), any unvested portion of the option will become immediately vested and exercisable, subject to Mr. Ellspermann’s continued service up to the closing date of the Change of Control.

 

In the event of an Involuntary Termination (as defined in the employment agreement) Mr. Ellspermann will be entitled to receive (i) 18 months of his base salary, paid in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll, (ii) a prorated annual bonus, and (iii) payment of COBRA premiums (or a taxable equivalent payment) for up to 18 months, in each case subject to his execution and non-revocation of a separation agreement and release of claims.

 

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Lowdell Employment Agreement

 

On November 26, 2025, INmune Bio International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Subsidiary”), entered into an employment agreement with Mark Lowdell, who currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer of the Company, effective November 1, 2025.

 

Under the employment agreement, Mr. Lowdell continues to serve as Chief Scientific Officer of both the Subsidiary and the Company. Mr. Lowdell remains an employee of the Subsidiary and may perform services for the Company under a secondment arrangement if such services exceed reasonable time commitments. All compensation and benefits will be paid by the Subsidiary, which may recharge costs to the Company as appropriate.

 

Under the employment agreement, Mr. Lowdell will receive a base salary of £300,000 per annum, payable monthly in arrears, and will be eligible to be considered for an annual discretionary bonus of up to 20% of base salary, subject to performance criteria established by the Board. Mr. Lowdell is eligible to participate in the Subsidiary’s pension scheme and other employee benefit programs available to senior personnel.

 

Either party may terminate employment upon three (3) months’ written notice, or payment in lieu of notice by the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary may terminate employment without notice for gross misconduct or other grounds under English law. If the Subsidiary terminates Mr. Lowdell’s employment other than for cause, death, or permanent disability, Mr. Lowdell is entitled to severance equal to 18 months of base salary, subject to statutory deductions and conditioned on Mr. Lowdell’s timely execution of a release of claims. The severance is inclusive of statutory or contractual notice pay or other termination entitlements.

 

The employment agreement includes customary confidentiality, inventions, and intellectual property assignment obligations, as well as provisions requiring the return of Company property and compliance with Company policies. Mr. Lowdell is entitled to indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by law and under the organizational documents of the Subsidiary and the Company.

 

The foregoing summaries of the employment agreements of Messrs. Moss, Ellspermann and Lowdell are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of such agreements, which are filed as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

   

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
10.1   Employment Agreement, dated November 26, 2025, between INmune Bio Inc. and David Moss
10.2   Employment Agreement, dated November 26, 2025, between INmune Bio Inc. and Cory Ellspermann
10.3   Employment Agreement, dated November 26, 2025, between INmune Bio International Limited and Mark Lowdell
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  INMUNE BIO INC.
   
Date: November 28, 2025 By: /s/ David Moss
    David Moss
    Chief Executive Officer

 

 

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EX-10.1 2 ea026754601ex10-1_inmune.htm EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT, DATED NOVEMBER 26, 2025, BETWEEN INMUNE BIO INC. AND DAVID MOSS

Exhibit 10.1

 

INmune Bio Inc.

225 NE Mizner Blvd., Suite 640

Boca Raton, Florida 33432

 

November 26, 2025

 

David J. Moss

225 NE Mizner Blvd., Suite 640

Boca Raton FL 33432

 

Re:        Offer of Employment

 

Dear Mr. Moss:

 

INmune Bio Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to offer you continued at-will employment in the position of President and Chief Executive Officer on the terms and conditions set forth in this letter agreement (the “Agreement”).

 

1. Employment by the Company. Your employment with the Company shall continue on these terms effective as of November 1, 2025, or such date as otherwise agreed to by you and the Company (such actual date your employment begins on these terms, the (“Effective Date”)). This is an exempt position, and during your employment with the Company, you will devote your best efforts and substantially all of your business time and attention to the business of the Company, except for approved vacation periods and reasonable periods of illness or other incapacities permitted by the Company’s general employment policies. You shall perform such duties as are required by the Company’s Board of Directors (“Board”), to whom you will report. Your primary work location shall be at 225 NE Mizner Blvd, Suite 640, Boca Raton FL 33432. The Company reserves the right to reasonably require you to perform your duties at places other than your primary office location from time to time, and to require reasonable business travel. The Company may modify your job title and duties as it deems necessary and appropriate in light of the

Company’s needs and interests from time to time.

 

2. Compensation.

 

2.1 Base Salary. For services to be rendered hereunder, you shall receive a base salary at the rate of $500,000 per year (the “Base Salary”), subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings and payable in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll schedule.

 

2.2 Annual Bonus. You will be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus with a target amount of 50% of your then current annual Base Salary, prorated for the number of days employed in a calendar year (the “Annual Bonus”). Whether you receive an Annual Bonus for any given year, and the amount of any such Annual Bonus, will be determined by the Board and/or its Compensation Committee in its discretion based upon the achievement of corporate and/or individual objectives and milestones that are determined in the sole discretion of the Board. If your employment terminates for any reason prior to the date such Annual Bonus, if any, is paid, then you will not have earned an Annual Bonus for that year and will not receive any portion of it, except as provided in Section 8. The Annual Bonus, if earned, shall be paid to you in a lump sum no later than March 15th of the calendar year that follows the performance year, subject to applicable payroll deductions and withholdings.

 

 


 

2.3 Equity. Subject to approval by the Board, you shall be granted an option to purchase 800,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Option”) pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated INmune Bio Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan. (as amended from time to time, the “Plan”). The exercise price of the Option shall be the minimum permissible amount, and such exercise price as well as all other matters related to the Option, will be governed by and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Plan, and the stock option agreement you will be required to execute. Upon a Change of Control (as defined in the Plan), the vesting and exercisability of all unvested shares subject to the Option shall accelerate and become immediately vested and exercisable as of the date of the closing of the Change of Control (the “CIC Equity Acceleration”). The CIC Equity Acceleration shall be subject to your Continuous Service (as defined in the Plan) up to and including the closing date of such Change of Control.

 

3. Reasonable Business Expenses. You will be eligible for reimbursement of all reasonable, necessary and documented out-of-pocket business, entertainment, and travel expenses incurred by you in connection with the performance of your duties hereunder in accordance with the Company’s expense reimbursement policies and procedures.

 

4. Paid Time Off; Holidays. You will initially be eligible to accrue up to [three weeks] of paid time off during each calendar year, subject to applicable maximum accrual caps, in accordance with the Company’s paid time off policies as in effect from time to time. You will also be eligible for certain paid holidays pursuant to Company policy. The Company reserves the right to cancel or change its policies regarding paid time off, paid sick leave and/or holidays from time to time without amendment of this Agreement.

 

5. Company Policies; Standard Company Benefits. The employment relationship between the parties shall be governed by the general employment policies and practices of the Company, except that when the terms of this Agreement differ from or are in conflict with the Company’s general employment policies or practices, this Agreement shall control. You shall be entitled to participate in all employee benefit programs for which you are eligible under the terms and conditions of the benefit plans that may be in effect from time to time and provided by the Company to its employees. The Company reserves the right to cancel or change the benefit plans or programs it offers to its employees at any time.

 

6. At-Will Employment. Your employment relationship is at-will. Either you or the Company may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice. Upon termination of your employment for any reason, you shall resign from all positions and terminate any relationships as an employee, advisor, officer or director with the Company and any of its affiliates, each effective on the date of termination.

 

7. Outside Activities During Employment. Except with the prior written consent of the Board, you will not during the term of your employment with the Company undertake or engage in any other employment, occupation or business enterprise, other than ones in which you are a passive investor. You may engage in civic and not-for-profit activities and be a member of the board of directors of other companies so long as such activities do not materially interfere with the performance of your duties hereunder and such other companies are not competitive with the Company’s business. You agree not to acquire, assume or participate in, directly or indirectly, any position, material investment or interest known to be adverse or antagonistic to the Company, its business or prospects, financial or otherwise.

 

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8. Termination; Severance.

 

8.1 Compensation upon Termination. Upon the termination of your employment for any reason, the Company shall pay you all of your accrued and unpaid wages earned through your last day of employment (the “Separation Date”).

 

8.2 Involuntary Termination. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination (as defined below), and provided that you remain in compliance with the terms of this Agreement (including the conditions described in Section 8.4 below), the Company shall provide you with the following benefits (the “Severance Benefits”):

 

(a) Cash Severance. The Company shall pay you, as severance, the equivalent of 18 months (the “Severance Period”) of your Base Salary in effect as of the Separation Date, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings. The Severance will be paid as a continuation on the Company’s regular payroll, beginning no later than the first regularly-scheduled payroll date following the sixtieth (60th) day after your Separation from Service, provided the Separation Agreement (as discussed in Section 8.4) has become effective.

 

(b) Prorated Annual Bonus. You will be eligible to receive a prorated Annual Bonus (calculated as the Annual Bonus that would have been paid for the entire calendar year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the number of days you worked in the applicable calendar year, and the denominator of which is equal to the total number of days in such year). The prorated Annual Bonus, if any, will be paid to you, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings, at the time such bonus is paid to similarly situated employees.

 

(c) Payment of Continued Group Health Plan Benefits. If you are eligible for and timely elect continued group health plan coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or any state law of similar effect (“COBRA”) following your Involuntary Termination, the Company will pay your COBRA group health insurance premiums or equivalent of COBRA if the company is not eligible for COBRA for you and your eligible dependents directly to the insurer until the earliest of (A) the end of the period immediately following your Involuntary Termination that is equal to the Severance Period (the “COBRA Payment Period”), (B) the expiration of your eligibility for continuation coverage under COBRA, or (C) the date when you become eligible for substantially equivalent health insurance coverage in connection with new employment or self-employment. For purposes of this Section, references to COBRA premiums shall not include any amounts payable by you under a Section 125 health care reimbursement plan under the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the Company determines, in its sole discretion, that it cannot pay the COBRA premiums without potentially incurring financial costs or penalties under applicable law (including, without limitation, Section 2716 of the Public Health Service Act), then regardless of whether you elect continued health coverage under COBRA, and in lieu of providing the COBRA premiums, the Company will instead pay you on the last day of each remaining month of the COBRA Payment Period, a fully taxable cash payment equal to the COBRA premiums for that month, subject to applicable tax withholdings (such amount, the “Special Severance Payment”), which payments shall continue until the earlier of expiration of the COBRA Payment Period or the date when you become eligible for substantially equivalent health insurance coverage in connection with new employment or self-employment. On the first payroll date following the effectiveness of the Separation Agreement, the Company will make the first payment to the insurer under this clause (and, in the case of the Special Severance Payment, such payment will be to you, in a lump sum) equal to the aggregate amount of payments that the Company would have paid through such date had such payments instead commenced on the Separation Date, with the balance of the payments paid thereafter on the schedule described above. If you become eligible for coverage under another employer’s group health plan, you must immediately notify the Company of such event, and all payments and obligations under this subsection shall cease.

 

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8.3 Termination for Cause; Resignation Without Good Reason; Death or Disability. If you resign without Good Reason, or the Company terminates your employment for Cause, upon dissolution or cessation of the Company, or upon your death or disability, then (a) you will no longer vest in the Option, (b) all payments of compensation by the Company to you hereunder will terminate immediately (except as to amounts already earned), and (c) you will not be entitled to any Severance Benefits.

 

8.4 Conditions to Receipt of Severance Benefits. The receipt of the Severance Benefits will be subject to you signing and not revoking a separation agreement and general release of claims in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company (the “Separation Agreement”) by no later than the sixtieth (60th) day after the Separation Date (“Release Deadline”). No Severance Benefits will be paid or provided until the Separation Agreement becomes effective. You shall also resign from all positions and terminate any relationships as an employee, advisor, officer or director with the Company and any of its affiliates, each effective on the Separation Date.

 

9. Definitions.

 

9.1 Cause. For purposes of this Agreement, “Cause” for termination means: (a) commission of any felony or crime involving dishonesty; (b) participation in any fraud against the Company; (c) material breach of your duties to the Company; (d) persistent unsatisfactory performance of job duties after written notice from the Board and an opportunity to cure (if deemed curable by the Company in its sole discretion); (e) intentional damage to any material property of the Company; (f) misconduct, or other violation of Company policy that causes material harm; (g) breach of this Agreement, the Confidentiality Agreement (as defined below), or any other written agreement with the Company; or (h) conduct by you which in the good faith and reasonable determination of the Board demonstrates gross unfitness to serve.

 

9.2 Code. For purposes of this Agreement, “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as it has been and may be amended from time to time) and any regulations and guidance that has been promulgated or may be promulgated from time to time thereunder and any state law of similar effect.

 

9.3 Good Reason. For purposes of this Agreement, you shall have “Good Reason” for resignation from employment with the Company if any of the following actions are taken by the Company without your prior written consent: (a) a material reduction in your Base Salary, which the parties agree is a reduction of at least 10% of your Base Salary (unless pursuant to a salary reduction program applicable generally to the Company’s similarly situated employees); (b) a material reduction in your duties (including responsibilities and/or authorities), provided, however, that a change in job position (including a change in title) shall not be deemed a “material reduction” in and of itself unless your new duties are materially reduced from the prior duties; or (c) relocation of your principal place of employment to a place that increases your one-way commute by more than fifty (50) miles as compared to your then-current principal place of employment immediately prior to such relocation. In order to resign for Good Reason, you must provide written notice to the Company’s Board within 30 days after the first occurrence of the event giving rise to Good Reason setting forth the basis for your resignation, allow the Company at least 30 days from receipt of such written notice to cure such event, and if such event is not reasonably cured within such period, you must resign from all positions you then hold with the Company not later than 90 days after the expiration of the cure period.

 

9.4 Involuntary Termination. For purposes of this Agreement, “Involuntary Termination” means a termination of your employment with the Company pursuant to either (i) a termination initiated by the Company without Cause, or (ii) your resignation for Good Reason, and provided in either case such termination constitutes a Separation from Service. An Involuntary Termination does not include any other termination of your employment, including a termination due to your death or disability.

 

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9.5 Separation from Service. For purposes of this Agreement, “Separation from Service” means a “separation from service”, as defined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h).

 

10. Proprietary Information Obligations. As a condition of your continued employment, you shall continue to abide by the Company’s standard form of Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), attached as Exhibit A. In your work for the Company, you will be expected not to use or disclose any confidential information, including trade secrets, of any former employer or other person to whom you have an obligation of confidentiality. Rather, you will be expected to use only that information which is generally known and used by persons with training and experience comparable to your own, which is common knowledge in the industry or otherwise legally in the public domain, or which is otherwise provided or developed by the Company. You agree that you will not bring onto Company premises any unpublished documents or property belonging to any former employer or other person to whom you have an obligation of confidentiality. You hereby represent that you have disclosed to the Company any contract you have signed that may restrict your activities on behalf of the Company.

 

11. Section 409A. It is intended that all of the severance benefits and other payments payable under this Agreement satisfy, to the greatest extent possible, the exemptions from the application of Code Section 409A provided under Treasury Regulations Sections 1.409A 1(b)(4), 1.409A 1(b)(5) and 1.409A 1(b)(9), and this Agreement will be construed to the greatest extent possible as consistent with those provisions, and to the extent not so exempt, this Agreement (and any definitions hereunder) will be construed in a manner that complies with Section 409A. For all purposes of Code Section 409A (including, without limitation, for purposes of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.409A 2(b)(2)(i) and (iii)), your right to receive any installment payments under this Agreement (whether severance payments, reimbursements or otherwise) shall be treated as a right to receive a series of separate payments and, accordingly, each installment payment hereunder shall at all times be considered a separate and distinct payment. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, if you are deemed by the Company at the time of your Separation from Service to be a “specified employee” for purposes of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i), and if any of the payments upon Separation from Service set forth herein and/or under any other agreement with the Company are deemed to be “deferred compensation,” then to the extent delayed commencement of any portion of such payments is required in order to avoid a prohibited distribution under Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) and the related adverse taxation under Section 409A, such payments shall not be provided to you prior to the earliest of (i) the first date following expiration of the six-month period following the date of your Separation from Service with the Company, (ii) the date of your death or (iii) such earlier date as permitted under Section 409A without the imposition of adverse taxation. Upon the first business day following the expiration of such applicable Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) period, all payments deferred pursuant to this Paragraph shall be paid in a lump sum to you, and any remaining payments due shall be paid as otherwise provided herein or in the applicable agreement. No interest shall be due on any amounts so deferred. If the severance benefits are not covered by one or more exemptions from the application of Section 409A and the Release Deadline occurs in the calendar year following the calendar year of your Separation from Service, the Separation Agreement will not be deemed effective any earlier than the Release Deadline for purposes of determining the timing of provision of any severance benefits.

 

12. Section 280G.

 

If any payment or benefit you will or may receive from the Company or otherwise (a “280G Payment”) would (i) constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, and (ii) but for this sentence, be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the “Excise Tax”), then any such 280G Payment pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise (a “Payment”) shall be equal to the Reduced Amount. The “Reduced Amount” shall be either (x) the largest portion of the Payment that would result in no portion of the Payment (after reduction) being subject to the Excise Tax or (y) the largest portion, up to and including the total, of the Payment, whichever amount (i.e., the amount determined by clause (x) or by clause (y)), after taking into account all applicable federal, state and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the Excise Tax (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rate), results in your receipt, on an after-tax basis, of the greater economic benefit notwithstanding that all or some portion of the Payment may be subject to the Excise Tax. If a reduction in a Payment is required pursuant to the preceding sentence and the Reduced Amount is determined pursuant to clause (x) of the preceding sentence, the reduction shall occur in the manner (the “Reduction Method”) that results in the greatest economic benefit for you. If more than one method of reduction will result in the same economic benefit, the items so reduced will be reduced pro rata (the “Pro Rata Reduction Method”).

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Reduction Method or the Pro Rata Reduction Method would result in any portion of the Payment being subject to taxes pursuant to Section 409A that would not otherwise be subject to taxes pursuant to Section 409A, then the Reduction Method and/or the Pro Rata Reduction Method, as the case may be, shall be modified so as to avoid the imposition of taxes pursuant to Section 409A as follows: (A) as a first priority, the modification shall preserve to the greatest extent possible, the greatest economic benefit for you as determined on an after-tax basis; (B) as a second priority, Payments that are contingent on future events (e.g., being terminated without Cause), shall be reduced (or eliminated) before Payments that are not contingent on future events; and (C) as a third priority, Payments that are “deferred compensation” within the meaning of Section 409A shall be reduced (or eliminated) before Payments that are not deferred compensation within the meaning of Section 409A.

 

Unless you and the Company agree on an alternative accounting firm, the accounting firm engaged by the Company for general tax compliance purposes as of the day prior to the effective date of the change in control transaction triggering the Payment shall perform the foregoing calculations. If the accounting firm so engaged by the Company is serving as accountant or auditor for the individual, entity or group effecting the change in control transaction, the Company shall appoint a nationally recognized accounting firm to make the determinations required hereunder. The Company shall bear all expenses with respect to the determinations by such accounting firm required to be made hereunder. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the accounting firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder to provide its calculations, together with detailed supporting documentation, to you and the Company within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date on which your right to a 280G Payment becomes reasonably likely to occur (if requested at that time by you or the Company) or such other reasonable time as requested by you or the Company.

 

If you receive a Payment for which the Reduced Amount was determined pursuant to clause (x) of the first paragraph of this Section and the Internal Revenue Service determines thereafter that some portion of the Payment is subject to the Excise Tax, you shall promptly return to the Company a sufficient amount of the Payment (after reduction pursuant to clause (x) of the first paragraph of this Section so that no portion of the remaining Payment is subject to the Excise Tax). For the avoidance of doubt, if the Reduced Amount was determined pursuant to clause (y) in the first paragraph of this Section, you shall have no obligation to return any portion of the Payment pursuant to the preceding sentence.

 

13. Arbitration of All Disputes.

 

13.1 Agreement to Arbitrate. To ensure the timely and economical resolution of disputes that may arise between you and the Company, both you and the Company mutually agree that pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §1-16, and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you and the Company will submit solely to final, binding and confidential arbitration any and all disputes, claims, or causes of action arising from or relating to: (i) the negotiation, execution, interpretation, performance, breach or enforcement of this Agreement; or (ii) your employment with the Company (including but not limited to all statutory claims); or (iii) the termination of your employment with the Company (including but not limited to all statutory claims). BY AGREEING TO THIS ARBITRATION PROCEDURE, BOTH YOU AND THE COMPANY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO RESOLVE ANY SUCH DISPUTES THROUGH A TRIAL BY JURY OR JUDGE OR THROUGH AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING.

 

13.2 Arbitrator Authority. The arbitrator shall have the sole and exclusive authority to determine whether a dispute, claim or cause of action is subject to arbitration under this Section and to determine any procedural questions which grow out of such disputes, claims or causes of action and bear on their final disposition.

 

13.3 Individual Capacity Only. All claims, disputes, or causes of action under this Section, whether by you or the Company, must be brought solely in an individual capacity, and shall not be brought as a plaintiff (or claimant) or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, nor joined or consolidated with the claims of any other person or entity. The arbitrator may not consolidate the claims of more than one person or entity, and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. To the extent that the preceding sentences in this Section are found to violate applicable law or are otherwise found unenforceable, any claim(s) alleged or brought on behalf of a class shall proceed in a court of law rather than by arbitration.

 

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13.4 Arbitration Process. Any arbitration proceeding under this Section shall be presided over by a single arbitrator and conducted by Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (“JAMS”) in Boca Raton, Florida, or as otherwise agreed to by you and the Company, under the then applicable JAMS rules for the resolution of employment disputes (available upon request and also currently available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-employment-arbitration/). You and the Company both have the right to be represented by legal counsel at any arbitration proceeding, at each party’s own expense. The arbitrator shall: (i) have the authority to compel adequate discovery for the resolution of the dispute; (ii) issue a written arbitration decision, to include the arbitrator’s essential findings and conclusions and a statement of the award; and (iii) be authorized to award any or all remedies that you or the Company would be entitled to seek in a court of law. The Company shall pay all JAMS arbitration fees in excess of the amount of court fees that would be required of you if the dispute were decided in a court of law.

 

13.5 Excluded Claims. This Section shall not apply to any action or claim that cannot be subject to mandatory arbitration as a matter of law, to the extent such claims are not permitted by applicable law to be submitted to mandatory arbitration and such applicable law is not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act or otherwise invalid (collectively, the “Excluded Claims”). In the event you intend to bring multiple claims, including one of the Excluded Claims listed above, the Excluded Claims may be filed with a court, while any other claims will remain subject to mandatory arbitration.

 

13.6 Injunctive Relief and Final Orders. Nothing in this Section is intended to prevent either you or the Company from obtaining injunctive relief in court to prevent irreparable harm pending the conclusion of any such arbitration. Any final award in any arbitration proceeding hereunder may be entered as a judgment in the federal and state courts of any competent jurisdiction and enforced accordingly.

 

14. General Provisions. This Agreement, together with the Confidentiality Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Company with regard to this subject matter and is the complete, final, and exclusive embodiment of the parties’ agreement with regard to this subject matter. This Agreement is entered into without reliance on any promise or representation, written or oral, other than those expressly contained herein, and it supersedes any other such promises, warranties or representations. Modifications or amendments to this Agreement, other than those changes expressly reserved to the Company’s discretion in this letter, must be made in a written agreement signed by you and the Company’s Board. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability will not affect any other provision or any other jurisdiction, but this Agreement will be reformed, construed and enforced in such jurisdiction to the extent possible in keeping with the intent of the parties. Any waiver of any breach of any provisions of this Agreement must be in writing to be effective, and it shall not thereby be deemed to have waived any preceding or succeeding breach of the same or any other provision of this Agreement. This Agreement is intended to bind and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by you and the Company, and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators. The Company may freely assign this Agreement, without your prior written consent. You may not assign any of your duties hereunder and you may not assign any of your rights hereunder without the written consent of the Company. The obligations as forth under Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 will survive the termination of this Agreement. All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida.

 

This offer is subject to satisfactory proof of your identity and right to work in the United States and other applicable pre-employment screenings.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

INmune Bio Inc.  
   
/s/ Tim Schroeder  
Tim Schroeder  
Chairman of Compensation Committee  
   
Accepted and agreed:  
   
/s/ David J. Moss  
David J. Moss  

 

 


 

Exhibit A

 

Confidential information and invention assignment agreement

 

This agreement is made between David Moss (“Employee”) and INmune Bio Inc. (the “Company”) on November 26, 2025.

 

Employee will perform services for the Company as set forth in the Employment Agreement between the Company and the Employee that may require the Company to disclose confidential and proprietary information (“Confidential Information”) to Employee. Confidential Information is information and data of any kind concerning any matters affecting or relating to the Company, the business or operations of the Company, and/or the products, drawings, plans, processes, or other data of the Company not generally known or available outside of the company.

 

Accordingly, to protect the Confidential Information that will be disclosed during employment, the Employee agrees as follows:

 

1. Employee will hold the Confidential Information received from the Company in strict confidence and will exercise a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others.

 

2. Other than as required in the course of Employee’s employment with the Company, the Employee will not disclose or divulge either directly or indirectly the Confidential Information to others unless first authorized to do so in writing by the Company’s board of directors.

 

3. Employee will not reproduce the Confidential Information nor use this information commercially or for any purpose other than the performance of his duties for the Company.

 

4. Employee will, upon request or upon termination of his/her relationship with the Company, deliver to the Company any drawings, notes, documents, equipment, and materials received from the Company or originating from employment with the Company.

 

5. The Company will have the sole right to determine the treatment of all inventions, writings, ideas and discoveries received from Employee during the period of employment with the Company, including the right to keep the same as a trade secret, to use and disclose the same without prior patent applications, to file copyright registrations in its own name, or to follow any other procedure as the Company may deem appropriate.

 

6. The Company reserves the right to take disciplinary action, up to and including termination, for violations of this agreement in addition to pursuing civil or criminal penalties.

 

 


 

7. This agreement will be interpreted under and governed by the laws of the state of Nevada.

 

8. All provisions of this agreement will be applicable only to the extent that they do not violate any applicable law and are intended to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this agreement invalid, illegal or unenforceable. If any provision of this agreement or any application thereof will be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of other provisions of this agreement or of any other application of such provision will in no way be affected thereby.

 

Immunity from Liability for Confidential Disclosure of a Trade Secret to the Government or in a Court Filing:

 

(1) Immunity—An individual will not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.

 

(2) Use of Trade Secret Information in Anti-Retaliation Lawsuit—An individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual (A) files any document containing the trade secret under seal and (B) does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

 

Employee represents and warrants that he or she is not under any pre-existing obligations inconsistent with the provisions of this agreement.

 

Signing below signifies that the Employee agrees to the terms and conditions of the agreement stated above.

 

Employee:   INmune Bio Inc.:
     
/s/ David Moss   /s/ J. Kelly Ganjei
David Moss   J. Kelly Ganjei, Chairman

 

 

 

 

 

EX-10.2 3 ea026754601ex10-2_inmune.htm EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT, DATED NOVEMBER 26, 2025, BETWEEN INMUNE BIO INC. AND CORY ELLSPERMANN

Exhibit 10.2

 

INmune Bio Inc.

225 NE Mizner Blvd., Suite 640

Boca Raton, Florida 33432

 

November 26, 2025

 

Cory Ellspermann

 

Re:        Offer of Employment

 

Dear Mr. Ellspermann:

 

INmune Bio Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to offer you continued at-will employment in the position of Chief Financial Officer on the terms and conditions set forth in this letter agreement (the “Agreement”).

 

1. Employment by the Company. Your employment with the Company shall continue on these terms effective as of November 1, 2025, or such date as otherwise agreed to by you and the Company (such actual date your employment begins on these terms, the (“Effective Date”)). This is an exempt position, and during your employment with the Company, you will devote your best efforts and substantially all of your business time and attention to the business of the Company, except for approved vacation periods and reasonable periods of illness or other incapacities permitted by the Company’s general employment policies. You shall perform such duties as are required by the Company’s Board of Directors (“Board”), to whom you will report. The Company reserves the right to reasonably require you to perform your duties at places other than your primary office location from time to time, and to require reasonable business travel. The Company may modify your job title and duties as it deems necessary and appropriate in light of the Company’s needs and interests from time to time.

 

2. Compensation.

 

2.1 Base Salary. For services to be rendered hereunder, you shall receive a base salary at the rate of $275,000 per year (the “Base Salary”), subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings and payable in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll schedule.

 

2.2 Annual Bonus. You will be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus with a target amount of 40% of your then current annual Base Salary, prorated for the number of days employed in a calendar year (the “Annual Bonus”). Whether you receive an Annual Bonus for any given year, and the amount of any such Annual Bonus, will be determined by the Board and/or its Compensation Committee in its discretion based upon the achievement of corporate and/or individual objectives and milestones that are determined in the sole discretion of the Board. If your employment terminates for any reason prior to the date such Annual Bonus, if any, is paid, then you will not have earned an Annual Bonus for that year and will not receive any portion of it, except as provided in Section 8. The Annual Bonus, if earned, shall be paid to you in a lump sum no later than March 15th of the calendar year that follows the performance year, subject to applicable payroll deductions and withholdings.

 

 


 

2.3 Equity. Subject to approval by the Board, you shall be granted an option to purchase 300,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Option”) pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated INmune Bio Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan. (as amended from time to time, the “Plan”). The exercise price of the Option shall be the minimum permissible amount, and such exercise price as well as all other matters related to the Option, will be governed by and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Plan, and the stock option agreement you will be required to execute. Upon a Change of Control (as defined in the Plan), the vesting and exercisability of all unvested shares subject to the Option shall accelerate and become immediately vested and exercisable as of the date of the closing of the Change of Control (the “CIC Equity Acceleration”). The CIC Equity Acceleration shall be subject to your Continuous Service (as defined in the Plan) up to and including the closing date of such Change of Control.

 

3. Reasonable Business Expenses. You will be eligible for reimbursement of all reasonable, necessary and documented out-of-pocket business, entertainment, and travel expenses incurred by you in connection with the performance of your duties hereunder in accordance with the Company’s expense reimbursement policies and procedures.

 

4. Paid Time Off; Holidays. You will initially be eligible to accrue up to [three weeks] of paid time off during each calendar year, subject to applicable maximum accrual caps, in accordance with the Company’s paid time off policies as in effect from time to time. You will also be eligible for certain paid holidays pursuant to Company policy. The Company reserves the right to cancel or change its policies regarding paid time off, paid sick leave and/or holidays from time to time without amendment of this Agreement.

 

5. Company Policies; Standard Company Benefits. The employment relationship between the parties shall be governed by the general employment policies and practices of the Company, except that when the terms of this Agreement differ from or are in conflict with the Company’s general employment policies or practices, this Agreement shall control. You shall be entitled to participate in all employee benefit programs for which you are eligible under the terms and conditions of the benefit plans that may be in effect from time to time and provided by the Company to its employees. The Company reserves the right to cancel or change the benefit plans or programs it offers to its employees at any time.

 

6. At-Will Employment. Your employment relationship is at-will. Either you or the Company may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice. Upon termination of your employment for any reason, you shall resign from all positions and terminate any relationships as an employee, advisor, officer or director with the Company and any of its affiliates, each effective on the date of termination.

 

7. Outside Activities During Employment. Except with the prior written consent of the Board, you will not during the term of your employment with the Company undertake or engage in any other employment, occupation or business enterprise, other than ones in which you are a passive investor. You may engage in civic and not-for-profit activities and be a member of the board of directors of other companies so long as such activities do not materially interfere with the performance of your duties hereunder and such other companies are not competitive with the Company’s business. You agree not to acquire, assume or participate in, directly or indirectly, any position, material investment or interest known to be adverse or antagonistic to the Company, its business or prospects, financial or otherwise.

 

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8. Termination; Severance.

 

8.1 Compensation upon Termination. Upon the termination of your employment for any reason, the Company shall pay you all of your accrued and unpaid wages earned through your last day of employment (the “Separation Date”).

 

8.2 Involuntary Termination. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination (as defined below), and provided that you remain in compliance with the terms of this Agreement (including the conditions described in Section 8.4 below), the Company shall provide you with the following benefits (the “Severance Benefits”):

 

(a) Cash Severance. The Company shall pay you, as severance, the equivalent of 18 months (the “Severance Period”) of your Base Salary in effect as of the Separation Date, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings. The Severance will be paid as a continuation on the Company’s regular payroll, beginning no later than the first regularly-scheduled payroll date following the sixtieth (60th) day after your Separation from Service, provided the Separation Agreement (as discussed in Section 8.4) has become effective.

 

(b) Prorated Annual Bonus. You will be eligible to receive a prorated Annual Bonus (calculated as the Annual Bonus that would have been paid for the entire calendar year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the number of days you worked in the applicable calendar year, and the denominator of which is equal to the total number of days in such year). The prorated Annual Bonus, if any, will be paid to you, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings, at the time such bonus is paid to similarly situated employees.

 

(c) Payment of Continued Group Health Plan Benefits. If you are eligible for and timely elect continued group health plan coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or any state law of similar effect (“COBRA”) following your Involuntary Termination, the Company will pay your COBRA group health insurance premiums or equivalent of COBRA if the company is not eligible for COBRA for you and your eligible dependents directly to the insurer until the earliest of (A) the end of the period immediately following your Involuntary Termination that is equal to the Severance Period (the “COBRA Payment Period”), (B) the expiration of your eligibility for continuation coverage under COBRA, or (C) the date when you become eligible for substantially equivalent health insurance coverage in connection with new employment or self-employment. For purposes of this Section, references to COBRA premiums shall not include any amounts payable by you under a Section 125 health care reimbursement plan under the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the Company determines, in its sole discretion, that it cannot pay the COBRA premiums without potentially incurring financial costs or penalties under applicable law (including, without limitation, Section 2716 of the Public Health Service Act), then regardless of whether you elect continued health coverage under COBRA, and in lieu of providing the COBRA premiums, the Company will instead pay you on the last day of each remaining month of the COBRA Payment Period, a fully taxable cash payment equal to the COBRA premiums for that month, subject to applicable tax withholdings (such amount, the “Special Severance Payment”), which payments shall continue until the earlier of expiration of the COBRA Payment Period or the date when you become eligible for substantially equivalent health insurance coverage in connection with new employment or self-employment. On the first payroll date following the effectiveness of the Separation Agreement, the Company will make the first payment to the insurer under this clause (and, in the case of the Special Severance Payment, such payment will be to you, in a lump sum) equal to the aggregate amount of payments that the Company would have paid through such date had such payments instead commenced on the Separation Date, with the balance of the payments paid thereafter on the schedule described above. If you become eligible for coverage under another employer’s group health plan, you must immediately notify the Company of such event, and all payments and obligations under this subsection shall cease.

 

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8.3 Termination for Cause; Resignation Without Good Reason; Death or Disability. If you resign without Good Reason, or the Company terminates your employment for Cause, upon dissolution or cessation of the Company, or upon your death or disability, then (a) you will no longer vest in the Option, (b) all payments of compensation by the Company to you hereunder will terminate immediately (except as to amounts already earned), and (c) you will not be entitled to any Severance Benefits.

 

8.4 Conditions to Receipt of Severance Benefits. The receipt of the Severance Benefits will be subject to you signing and not revoking a separation agreement and general release of claims in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company (the “Separation Agreement”) by no later than the sixtieth (60th) day after the Separation Date (“Release Deadline”). No Severance Benefits will be paid or provided until the Separation Agreement becomes effective. You shall also resign from all positions and terminate any relationships as an employee, advisor, officer or director with the Company and any of its affiliates, each effective on the Separation Date.

 

9. Definitions.

 

9.1 Cause. For purposes of this Agreement, “Cause” for termination means: (a) commission of any felony or crime involving dishonesty; (b) participation in any fraud against the Company; (c) material breach of your duties to the Company; (d) persistent unsatisfactory performance of job duties after written notice from the Board and an opportunity to cure (if deemed curable by the Company in its sole discretion); (e) intentional damage to any material property of the Company; (f) misconduct, or other violation of Company policy that causes material harm; (g) breach of this Agreement, the Confidentiality Agreement (as defined below), or any other written agreement with the Company; or (h) conduct by you which in the good faith and reasonable determination of the Board demonstrates gross unfitness to serve.

 

9.2 Code. For purposes of this Agreement, “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as it has been and may be amended from time to time) and any regulations and guidance that has been promulgated or may be promulgated from time to time thereunder and any state law of similar effect.

 

9.3 Good Reason. For purposes of this Agreement, you shall have “Good Reason” for resignation from employment with the Company if any of the following actions are taken by the Company without your prior written consent: (a) a material reduction in your Base Salary, which the parties agree is a reduction of at least 10% of your Base Salary (unless pursuant to a salary reduction program applicable generally to the Company’s similarly situated employees); (b) a material reduction in your duties (including responsibilities and/or authorities), provided, however, that a change in job position (including a change in title) shall not be deemed a “material reduction” in and of itself unless your new duties are materially reduced from the prior duties; or (c) relocation of your principal place of employment to a place that increases your one-way commute by more than fifty (50) miles as compared to your then-current principal place of employment immediately prior to such relocation. In order to resign for Good Reason, you must provide written notice to the Company’s Board within 30 days after the first occurrence of the event giving rise to Good Reason setting forth the basis for your resignation, allow the Company at least 30 days from receipt of such written notice to cure such event, and if such event is not reasonably cured within such period, you must resign from all positions you then hold with the Company not later than 90 days after the expiration of the cure period.

 

9.4 Involuntary Termination. For purposes of this Agreement, “Involuntary Termination” means a termination of your employment with the Company pursuant to either (i) a termination initiated by the Company without Cause, or (ii) your resignation for Good Reason, and provided in either case such termination constitutes a Separation from Service. An Involuntary Termination does not include any other termination of your employment, including a termination due to your death or disability.

 

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9.5 Separation from Service. For purposes of this Agreement, “Separation from Service” means a “separation from service”, as defined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h).

 

10. Proprietary Information Obligations. As a condition of your continued employment, you shall continue to abide by the Company’s standard form of Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), attached as Exhibit A. In your work for the Company, you will be expected not to use or disclose any confidential information, including trade secrets, of any former employer or other person to whom you have an obligation of confidentiality. Rather, you will be expected to use only that information which is generally known and used by persons with training and experience comparable to your own, which is common knowledge in the industry or otherwise legally in the public domain, or which is otherwise provided or developed by the Company. You agree that you will not bring onto Company premises any unpublished documents or property belonging to any former employer or other person to whom you have an obligation of confidentiality. You hereby represent that you have disclosed to the Company any contract you have signed that may restrict your activities on behalf of the Company.

 

11. Section 409A. It is intended that all of the severance benefits and other payments payable under this Agreement satisfy, to the greatest extent possible, the exemptions from the application of Code Section 409A provided under Treasury Regulations Sections 1.409A 1(b)(4), 1.409A 1(b)(5) and 1.409A 1(b)(9), and this Agreement will be construed to the greatest extent possible as consistent with those provisions, and to the extent not so exempt, this Agreement (and any definitions hereunder) will be construed in a manner that complies with Section 409A. For all purposes of Code Section 409A (including, without limitation, for purposes of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.409A 2(b)(2)(i) and (iii)), your right to receive any installment payments under this Agreement (whether severance payments, reimbursements or otherwise) shall be treated as a right to receive a series of separate payments and, accordingly, each installment payment hereunder shall at all times be considered a separate and distinct payment. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, if you are deemed by the Company at the time of your Separation from Service to be a “specified employee” for purposes of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i), and if any of the payments upon Separation from Service set forth herein and/or under any other agreement with the Company are deemed to be “deferred compensation,” then to the extent delayed commencement of any portion of such payments is required in order to avoid a prohibited distribution under Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) and the related adverse taxation under Section 409A, such payments shall not be provided to you prior to the earliest of (i) the first date following expiration of the six-month period following the date of your Separation from Service with the Company, (ii) the date of your death or (iii) such earlier date as permitted under Section 409A without the imposition of adverse taxation. Upon the first business day following the expiration of such applicable Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) period, all payments deferred pursuant to this Paragraph shall be paid in a lump sum to you, and any remaining payments due shall be paid as otherwise provided herein or in the applicable agreement. No interest shall be due on any amounts so deferred. If the severance benefits are not covered by one or more exemptions from the application of Section 409A and the Release Deadline occurs in the calendar year following the calendar year of your Separation from Service, the Separation Agreement will not be deemed effective any earlier than the Release Deadline for purposes of determining the timing of provision of any severance benefits.

 

12. Section 280G.

 

If any payment or benefit you will or may receive from the Company or otherwise (a “280G Payment”) would (i) constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, and (ii) but for this sentence, be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the “Excise Tax”), then any such 280G Payment pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise (a “Payment”) shall be equal to the Reduced Amount. The “Reduced Amount” shall be either (x) the largest portion of the Payment that would result in no portion of the Payment (after reduction) being subject to the Excise Tax or (y) the largest portion, up to and including the total, of the Payment, whichever amount (i.e., the amount determined by clause (x) or by clause (y)), after taking into account all applicable federal, state and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the Excise Tax (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rate), results in your receipt, on an after-tax basis, of the greater economic benefit notwithstanding that all or some portion of the Payment may be subject to the Excise Tax. If a reduction in a Payment is required pursuant to the preceding sentence and the Reduced Amount is determined pursuant to clause (x) of the preceding sentence, the reduction shall occur in the manner (the “Reduction Method”) that results in the greatest economic benefit for you. If more than one method of reduction will result in the same economic benefit, the items so reduced will be reduced pro rata (the “Pro Rata Reduction Method”).

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Reduction Method or the Pro Rata Reduction Method would result in any portion of the Payment being subject to taxes pursuant to Section 409A that would not otherwise be subject to taxes pursuant to Section 409A, then the Reduction Method and/or the Pro Rata Reduction Method, as the case may be, shall be modified so as to avoid the imposition of taxes pursuant to Section 409A as follows: (A) as a first priority, the modification shall preserve to the greatest extent possible, the greatest economic benefit for you as determined on an after-tax basis; (B) as a second priority, Payments that are contingent on future events (e.g., being terminated without Cause), shall be reduced (or eliminated) before Payments that are not contingent on future events; and (C) as a third priority, Payments that are “deferred compensation” within the meaning of Section 409A shall be reduced (or eliminated) before Payments that are not deferred compensation within the meaning of Section 409A.

 

Unless you and the Company agree on an alternative accounting firm, the accounting firm engaged by the Company for general tax compliance purposes as of the day prior to the effective date of the change in control transaction triggering the Payment shall perform the foregoing calculations. If the accounting firm so engaged by the Company is serving as accountant or auditor for the individual, entity or group effecting the change in control transaction, the Company shall appoint a nationally recognized accounting firm to make the determinations required hereunder. The Company shall bear all expenses with respect to the determinations by such accounting firm required to be made hereunder. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the accounting firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder to provide its calculations, together with detailed supporting documentation, to you and the Company within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date on which your right to a 280G Payment becomes reasonably likely to occur (if requested at that time by you or the Company) or such other reasonable time as requested by you or the Company.

 

If you receive a Payment for which the Reduced Amount was determined pursuant to clause (x) of the first paragraph of this Section and the Internal Revenue Service determines thereafter that some portion of the Payment is subject to the Excise Tax, you shall promptly return to the Company a sufficient amount of the Payment (after reduction pursuant to clause (x) of the first paragraph of this Section so that no portion of the remaining Payment is subject to the Excise Tax). For the avoidance of doubt, if the Reduced Amount was determined pursuant to clause (y) in the first paragraph of this Section, you shall have no obligation to return any portion of the Payment pursuant to the preceding sentence.

 

13. Arbitration of All Disputes.

 

13.1 Agreement to Arbitrate. To ensure the timely and economical resolution of disputes that may arise between you and the Company, both you and the Company mutually agree that pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §1-16, and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you and the Company will submit solely to final, binding and confidential arbitration any and all disputes, claims, or causes of action arising from or relating to: (i) the negotiation, execution, interpretation, performance, breach or enforcement of this Agreement; or (ii) your employment with the Company (including but not limited to all statutory claims); or (iii) the termination of your employment with the Company (including but not limited to all statutory claims). BY AGREEING TO THIS ARBITRATION PROCEDURE, BOTH YOU AND THE COMPANY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO RESOLVE ANY SUCH DISPUTES THROUGH A TRIAL BY JURY OR JUDGE OR THROUGH AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING.

 

13.2 Arbitrator Authority. The arbitrator shall have the sole and exclusive authority to determine whether a dispute, claim or cause of action is subject to arbitration under this Section and to determine any procedural questions which grow out of such disputes, claims or causes of action and bear on their final disposition.

 

13.3 Individual Capacity Only. All claims, disputes, or causes of action under this Section, whether by you or the Company, must be brought solely in an individual capacity, and shall not be brought as a plaintiff (or claimant) or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, nor joined or consolidated with the claims of any other person or entity. The arbitrator may not consolidate the claims of more than one person or entity, and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. To the extent that the preceding sentences in this Section are found to violate applicable law or are otherwise found unenforceable, any claim(s) alleged or brought on behalf of a class shall proceed in a court of law rather than by arbitration.

 

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13.4 Arbitration Process. Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or related to this Agreement or any breach of this Agreement or your employment, whether the claim arises in contract, tort, or statute, shall be submitted to and decided by binding arbitration. Arbitration shall be administered exclusively by Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (“JAMS”) in Boca Raton, Florida, or as otherwise agreed to by you and the Company, under the then applicable JAMS rules for the resolution of employment disputes (available upon request and also currently available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-employment-arbitration/). Any arbitral award determination shall be final and binding upon the parties.

 

13.5 Injunctive Relief and Final Orders. Nothing in this Section is intended to prevent either you or the Company from obtaining injunctive relief in court to prevent irreparable harm pending the conclusion of any such arbitration. Any final award in any arbitration proceeding hereunder may be entered as a judgment in the federal and state courts of any competent jurisdiction and enforced accordingly.

 

14. General Provisions. This Agreement, together with the Confidentiality Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Company with regard to this subject matter and is the complete, final, and exclusive embodiment of the parties’ agreement with regard to this subject matter. This Agreement is entered into without reliance on any promise or representation, written or oral, other than those expressly contained herein, and it supersedes any other such promises, warranties or representations. Modifications or amendments to this Agreement, other than those changes expressly reserved to the Company’s discretion in this letter, must be made in a written agreement signed by you and the Company’s Board. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability will not affect any other provision or any other jurisdiction, but this Agreement will be reformed, construed and enforced in such jurisdiction to the extent possible in keeping with the intent of the parties. Any waiver of any breach of any provisions of this Agreement must be in writing to be effective, and it shall not thereby be deemed to have waived any preceding or succeeding breach of the same or any other provision of this Agreement. This Agreement is intended to bind and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by you and the Company, and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators. The Company may freely assign this Agreement, without your prior written consent. You may not assign any of your duties hereunder and you may not assign any of your rights hereunder without the written consent of the Company. The obligations as forth under Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 will survive the termination of this Agreement. All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida.

 

This offer is subject to satisfactory proof of your identity and right to work in the United States and other applicable pre-employment screenings.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

INmune Bio Inc.  
   
/s/ Tim Schroeder  
Tim Schroeder  
Chairman of Compensation Committee  
   
Accepted and agreed:  
   
/s/ Cory Ellspermann  
Cory Ellspermann  

 

 


 

Exhibit A

 

Confidential information and invention assignment agreement

 

This agreement is made between Cory Ellspermann (“Employee”) and INmune Bio Inc. (the “Company”) on November 26, 2025.

 

Employee will perform services for the Company as set forth in the Employment Agreement between the Company and the Employee that may require the Company to disclose confidential and proprietary information (“Confidential Information”) to Employee. Confidential Information is information and data of any kind concerning any matters affecting or relating to the Company, the business or operations of the Company, and/or the products, drawings, plans, processes, or other data of the Company not generally known or available outside of the company.

 

Accordingly, to protect the Confidential Information that will be disclosed during employment, the Employee agrees as follows:

 

1. Employee will hold the Confidential Information received from the Company in strict confidence and will exercise a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others.

 

2. Other than as required in the course of Employee’s employment with the Company, the Employee will not disclose or divulge either directly or indirectly the Confidential Information to others unless first authorized to do so in writing by the Company’s board of directors.

 

3. Employee will not reproduce the Confidential Information nor use this information commercially or for any purpose other than the performance of his duties for the Company.

 

4. Employee will, upon request or upon termination of his/her relationship with the Company, deliver to the Company any drawings, notes, documents, equipment, and materials received from the Company or originating from employment with the Company.

 

5. The Company will have the sole right to determine the treatment of all inventions, writings, ideas and discoveries received from Employee during the period of employment with the Company, including the right to keep the same as a trade secret, to use and disclose the same without prior patent applications, to file copyright registrations in its own name, or to follow any other procedure as the Company may deem appropriate.

 

6. The Company reserves the right to take disciplinary action, up to and including termination, for violations of this agreement in addition to pursuing civil or criminal penalties.

 

 


 

7. This agreement will be interpreted under and governed by the laws of the state of Nevada.

 

8. All provisions of this agreement will be applicable only to the extent that they do not violate any applicable law and are intended to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this agreement invalid, illegal or unenforceable. If any provision of this agreement or any application thereof will be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of other provisions of this agreement or of any other application of such provision will in no way be affected thereby.

 

Immunity from Liability for Confidential Disclosure of a Trade Secret to the Government or in a Court Filing:

 

(1) Immunity—An individual will not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.

 

(2) Use of Trade Secret Information in Anti-Retaliation Lawsuit—An individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual (A) files any document containing the trade secret under seal and (B) does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

 

Employee represents and warrants that he or she is not under any pre-existing obligations inconsistent with the provisions of this agreement.

 

Signing below signifies that the Employee agrees to the terms and conditions of the agreement stated above.

 

Employee:   INmune Bio Inc.:
     
/s/ Cory Ellspermann   /s/ J. Kelly Ganjei
Cory Ellspermann   J. Kelly Ganjei, Chairman

 

 

 

 

 

EX-10.3 4 ea026754601ex10-3_inmune.htm EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT, DATED NOVEMBER 26, 2025, BETWEEN INMUNE BIO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED AND MARK LOWDELL

Exhibit 10.3

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

INmune Bio International Limited
(Company No. 10105962)
48 Chancery Lane
London, WC2A 1JF
(the “Company”)

 

and

 

Mark Lowdell, PhD

(the “Employee”)

 

Effective Date: 1 November 2025

 

1. Position and Duties

 

(a) Title and Role. You are employed as Chief Scientific Officer of the Company. This position also includes serving as the Chief Scientific Officer of INmune Bio Inc., the parent company of the Company. You shall report to the Company’s Board of Directors or such person as the Board may designate. Your duties will include the scientific and strategic leadership of the Company’s programmes, including but not limited to the cell-medicine programmes, including research and development, pre-clinical, clinical, chemistry-manufacturing-controls (CMC) and related development functions, and such other duties as may reasonably be assigned from time to time.

 

(b) Place of Work. Your normal place of work will be the Company’s office in the Stevenage, UK area. You may be required to work remotely or to travel within the United Kingdom or abroad (including to the United States) as reasonably necessary for the performance of your duties.

 

(c) Secondment to Parent Company. You will remain an employee of INmune Bio International Limited and will also perform services for INmune Bio Inc. (USA) under which a secondment arrangement may be required if such duties exceed reasonable time commitments. All remuneration and benefits will be paid solely by the UK entity, which shall recharge costs to its parent as appropriate.

 

(d) Obligations to the Company. During your employment you shall devote your full business time, attention and abilities to the business of the Company, comply with all Company policies and not, without prior written consent, undertake other paid employment or consultancy. You may, however, participate in charitable, civic, or academic activities provided these do not conflict with your duties.

 

(e) No Conflicting Obligations. You confirm that you are not bound by any existing agreement or obligation which would conflict with your employment hereunder and that you have returned all property and confidential information belonging to any prior employer.

 

 


 

2. Working Hours

 

Your normal working hours are 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

 

You agree that the 48-hour weekly working limit under the Working Time Regulations 1998 shall not apply to your employment. You may withdraw this opt-out by giving three months’ written notice.

 

3. Salary and Bonus

 

(a) Base Salary. Your gross base salary is £25,000 per month (£300,000 per annum), payable monthly in arrears on or about the last working day of each month by bank transfer, subject to deductions required by law.

 

(b) Review. Your Base Salary will be reviewed periodically by the Board or its Compensation Committee but the Company is not obliged to increase it.

 

(c) Bonus. You will be eligible to be considered for an annual discretionary bonus of up to 20 percent of Base Salary, dependent on individual and Company performance criteria set by the Board. You must be in employment and not under notice at the payment date to be eligible.

 

4. Benefits

 

(a) Pension. You will be automatically enrolled into the Company’s pension scheme in accordance with the Pensions Act 2008. Details of the scheme and your rights to opt out will be provided separately.

 

(b) Sick Pay. You will be entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) in accordance with UK law.

 

(c) Other Benefits. You will be eligible to participate in benefit plans generally available to senior employees, subject to plan rules and the Company’s discretion.

 

5. Holiday

 

You are entitled to 25 working days paid holiday per holiday year, 1 January to 31 December, in addition to the usual public holidays in England and Wales. Holiday accrues pro rata during the first and last years of employment. Unused holiday may not be carried forward or paid in lieu except as required by law or approved by the Company.

 

6. Business Expenses

 

The Company will reimburse you for all reasonable business expenses properly incurred in the performance of your duties, in accordance with the Company’s expense-reimbursement policy and upon provision of appropriate documentation.

 

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7. Confidentiality and Intellectual Property

 

Your obligations concerning confidentiality, inventions and intellectual-property ownership are set out in Attachment A – Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement, which forms part of this Agreement.

 

8. Termination

 

(a) Notice Period. Either party may terminate your employment by giving not less than three (3) months’ written notice, or payment in lieu of notice by the Company.

 

(b) Summary Dismissal. The Company may terminate your employment without notice or payment in lieu for gross misconduct or other circumstances entitling summary dismissal under English law.

 

(c) Termination on Death or Permanent Disability. Employment shall terminate automatically upon death or upon your inability to perform the essential functions of your position, with or without reasonable accommodation, for a period of 90 consecutive days due to physical or mental impairment (“Permanent Disability”).

 

(d) Obligations on Termination. Upon termination you must return all Company property and comply with your continuing obligations of confidentiality.

 

9. Severance

 

If the Company terminates your employment for any reason other than Cause, death or Permanent Disability, you shall receive severance pay equal to 18 months of Base Salary, payable in accordance with normal payroll cycles and subject to statutory deductions. Such severance payments are inclusive of any statutory or contractual notice pay, redundancy pay or other termination entitlements. Receipt of severance is conditional upon your execution (without revocation) of a full release of claims in the Company’s standard form.

 

For these purposes, “Cause” means gross misconduct or other circumstances entitling the Company to dismiss you without notice under English law.

 

10. Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures

 

The Company’s disciplinary and grievance procedures apply to your employment. Copies are available in the Company’s Employee Handbook or from Human Resources. These procedures are non-contractual and may be amended by the Company from time to time.

 

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11. Indemnification

 

The Company shall indemnify you to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and its articles of association and shall maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering you while you serve the Company.

 

12. Data Protection

 

Your personal data will be processed by the Company in accordance with its Data Protection Policy and the UK GDPR for employment-related purposes.

 

13. Entire Agreement and Miscellaneous

 

(a) This Agreement (including Attachment A) constitutes the entire understanding between the parties and supersedes all prior oral or written agreements relating to your employment.

 

(b) No amendment or waiver shall be effective unless in writing and signed by both parties.

 

(c) This Agreement and any dispute or claim arising from it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

 

(d) If any provision of this Agreement is found invalid or unenforceable, it shall be deemed amended to the minimum extent necessary to comply with law, and the remainder shall remain in full force and effect.

 

(e) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but together one instrument.

 

14. Acknowledgement and Acceptance

 

Please sign and date below to indicate your acceptance of the terms of employment set out herein and return one fully executed copy to the Company.

 

For and on behalf of INmune Bio International Limited   Accepted and Agreed by:
     
Signature:  /s/ David Moss   Signature:  /s/ Mark Lowdell
Name: David Moss   Name: Mark Lowdell, PhD
Title: UK Director & Company CEO    
Date: November 26, 2025   Date: November 26, 2025

 

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Attachment A: Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement

 

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ATTACHMENT A

 

INmune Bio EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND INVENTION ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

 

This Employee Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement (this “Agreement”) between me and INmune Bio Inc., a Nevada Corporation (the “Company” and, collectively with any and all of its current or future subsidiaries, affiliates, successors or assigns, the “Company Group”), is effective as of the first day of my employment by the Company, is a condition of my becoming employed (or my employment being continued) by the Company, and confirms and memorializes the agreement that (regardless of the execution date hereof) the Company Group and I have had since my employment’s commencement (which, for purposes of this Agreement, includes any service relationship to the Company or any other member of the Company Group that I may have had prior to becoming an employee) (the date of such commencement, the “Effective Date”). I acknowledge that this Agreement is a material part of the consideration for my employment or continued employment by the Company or any other member of the Company Group (the “Relationship”). In exchange for the foregoing and other good and valuable consideration, including my access to and use of Company IP and Confidential Information (in each case as defined below), I hereby agree to the following:

 

1. Confidentiality.

 

(a) Confidential Information Definition. “Confidential Information” means any and all information and physical manifestations thereof not generally known or available outside the Company Group and information and physical manifestations thereof entrusted to the Company Group in confidence by third parties, whether or not such information is patentable, copyrightable or otherwise legally protectable, and without regard to whether such information and physical manifestations thereof are marked or otherwise designated as “confidential”, “proprietary”, or something similar. Confidential Information includes, without limitation: (i) Company IP (as defined below); (ii) IP owned or licensed by the Company Group prior to or outside of this Agreement; (iii) Company Data (as defined below); (iv) access credentials, such as username, password, security key, security token, or PIN; (v) lists of, or information relating to, employees and consultants of the Company Group (including, but not limited to, the names, contact information, jobs, compensation, and expertise of such employees and consultants); and (vi) lists of, agreements with, or information relating to, suppliers and customers (including, but not limited to, customers of the Company Group on whom I called or with whom I became acquainted during the Relationship) and any other third parties, price lists, pricing methodologies, cost data, market share data, marketing plans, licenses, contract information, business plans, financial forecasts, historical financial data, budgets or other business information disclosed to me by the Company Group either directly or indirectly, whether in writing, electronically, orally, or by observation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information does not include information that is generally available to and known by the public through no wrongful act of mine or of others who were under confidentiality obligations as to the item or items involved.

 

(b) Protection of Information. I understand that during the Relationship, the Company intends to provide me with certain information, including Confidential Information, without which I would not be able to perform my duties to or for the Company. At all times during the Relationship and thereafter, I shall hold any and all Confidential Information that I obtain, access, or create during the Relationship in strictest confidence, shall not use such Confidential Information except for the Company’s benefit and to the extent necessary to perform my obligations to the Company in connection with the Relationship, and shall not disclose such Confidential Information to any third party without written authorization from the Company in each instance. I shall comply with the foregoing obligations whether or not during working hours, until the information at issue is no longer Confidential Information as described herein. I will not make copies of any Confidential Information (including any documents, records, files, media, or other resources containing any Confidential Information) except as authorized by the Company or in the ordinary course of my obligations to the Company in connection with the Relationship. I shall not use Confidential Information in violation of any applicable laws.

 

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(c) Third Party Information. During the Relationship and thereafter, I will not improperly use or disclose to the Company Group any confidential, proprietary or secret information of my former employer(s) or any other person, and I will not bring any such information onto the Company Group’s property or place of business or upload or transfer any such information to the Company Group’s property, devices, or cloud services accounts.

 

(d) Other Rights. This Agreement is intended to supplement, and not to supersede, any rights the Company Group may have in law or equity with respect to the protection of trade secrets or confidential or proprietary information.

 

(e) Permitted Disclosures. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent disclosure of Confidential Information as may be required by applicable law or regulation, or pursuant to the valid order of a court of competent jurisdiction or an authorized Government Agency (as defined below), provided that the disclosure does not exceed the extent of disclosure required by such law, regulation, or order. To the extent legally permissible, I shall promptly provide reasonable advance written notice of any such order to an authorized officer of the Company. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, nothing herein prohibits or restricts me from engaging in activities protected under applicable law including communicating with, filing a charge or complaint with, providing documents or information without notice to the Company Group voluntarily or in response to a lawfully-served subpoena or other information request to, or otherwise participating in any investigation or proceeding that may be conducted by, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any other federal, state, or local government agency or commission (each a “Government Agency”), engaging in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, or otherwise disclosing information as permitted by applicable law, regulation, or order protected under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act or similar state laws, or discussing or disclosing information about harassment, discrimination or any other conduct that I have reason to believe is unlawful, an unfair employment practice or in violation of a clear mandate of public policy. Further, this Agreement does not affect my immunity under the U.S. Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”), which provides in relevant part as follows:

 

(1) An individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that (A) is made (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.

 

(2) An individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual (A) files any document containing the trade secret under seal; and (B) does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

 

2. IP Matters.

 

(a) Certain Definitions.

 

(i) “IP” means any and all: (A) processes, machines, manufactures, compositions of matter, and other potentially patentable subject matter of any kind, as well as discoveries, ideas, inventions (whether or not reduced to practice), algorithms, calculations, methods, techniques, technology, equipment, tools, devices, apparatuses, systems, compounds, formulations, designs, and configurations; (B) written, photographic, audio, video, audiovisual, or other content of any kind (in whatever form embodied), including without limitation software (in whatever form embodied, including source and executable code), content, textual or artistic works, videos, graphics, sound recordings, mask works, manuals, documentation, communications, specifications, memoranda, communications, records, laboratory notebooks, flowcharts, presentations, notes, reports, lists, and other works of authorship and other potentially copyrightable subject matter of any kind; (C) trade names, trade dress, slogans, logos, trademarks, service marks, and other source identifiers and other trademarkable subject matter of any kind; (D) social media handles and domains; (E) trade secrets (including those trade secrets defined under any applicable laws, including without limitation the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and DTSA), business, technical and know-how data and information, non-public information, and confidential information, including all know how, processes, customer, client, and personnel lists or data, business and marketing plans, and marketing information and rights to limit the use or disclosure thereof by any person; (F) data, databases, and data collections of any kind; and (G) any tangible embodiments, enhancements, improvements, derivatives, or modifications of any kind of any of the foregoing; in each case with respect to subsections (A) through (G) whether or not any of the foregoing is patentable, copyrightable, trademarkable, or otherwise legally protectable.

 

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(ii) “IP Rights” means any and all patent rights, copyright rights, trademark rights, mask work rights, trade secret rights, sui generis database rights and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any kind throughout the world (including any rights to apply therefor, any applications therefor, and the right to claim priority to any such applications, as well as all rights to pursue remedies for past or future infringement or violation thereof) in or to IP.

 

(iii) “Company IP” means, other than Excluded IP: (A) IP that I solely or jointly author, discover, develop, conceive, or reduce to practice during the period of, or otherwise in connection with, the Relationship or that includes, incorporates, or otherwise relies upon the use of or results from access to, Confidential Information; (B) any other work product, deliverables, materials, compilations, analyses or information or any output of AI Technology, in each case that I solely or jointly author, discover, develop, conceive, or reduce to practice in connection with, or otherwise during the period of, or otherwise in connection with, the Relationship, including without limitation Confidential Information; and (C) all IP Rights in any of the foregoing.

 

(iv) “Employee Background IP” means IP that, as of the Effective Date: (A) has been created by me or on my behalf; (B) (x) is owned exclusively by me or jointly by me with others or (y) in which I otherwise have an ownership interest; (C) relates in any way to any of the Company Group’s actual or proposed businesses, products, services, or research and development; and (D) which is not intended to be assigned to the Company hereunder.

 

(v) “Excluded IP” means IP that I solely or jointly author, discover, develop, conceive, or reduce to practice in connection with, or otherwise during the period of the Relationship that: (A) qualifies fully for exclusion under the provisions of applicable state law, if any, including but not limited to those attached hereto as Exhibit A; or (B) the IP: (1) was otherwise authored, discovered, developed, conceived, or reduced to practice entirely on my own time and without the use of any member of the Company Group’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information, (2) did not relate at the time of authorship, discovery, development, conception, or reduction to practice to any member of the Company Group’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, and (3) did not result from any work performed by me for any member of the Company Group.

 

(b) Use or Incorporation of Employee Background IP and Excluded IP. If I use or incorporate into any of the Company Group’s products, services, processes, or machines, or create in any Company IP any dependency on, any Employee Background IP or Excluded IP, I will promptly inform the Company in writing. Whether or not I give such notice, I hereby grant to the Company a perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide, fully transferable and sublicensable (through multiple tiers), nonexclusive right and license to practice and exploit such Employee Background IP and Excluded IP and to make, have made, copy, modify, prepare derivative works of, use, sell, import, and otherwise distribute and commercialize the product, service, process, machine, or Company IP in which it was used or incorporated, or with respect to which the Company Group has such a dependency.

 

(c) Company IP and Excluded IP.

 

(i) Records and Disclosure. I shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all IP made or conceived by me (solely, or jointly with others) during the Relationship, which such records shall be considered Company IP. The records may be in the form of notes, sketches, drawings, flow charts, electronic data or recordings, laboratory notebooks, or any other format. I will make the records available to the Company Group on request. I will not remove such records from the Company Group’s place of business or systems except as expressly permitted by the Company’s policy which may, from time to time, be revised at the Company’s sole election. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, I will promptly make full written disclosure to the Company of all IP that I solely or jointly author, discover, develop, conceive, or reduce to practice during the period of, or otherwise in connection with, the Relationship for, among other things, the Company to determine which IP is Company IP and which is Excluded IP.

 

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(ii) Ownership of Company IP. The Company Group and I intend for all Company IP to be owned solely and exclusively by the Company. I acknowledge that, to the extent permitted by law, all Company IP consisting of copyrightable subject matter is “work made for hire” as defined in the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. §101), are fully compensated by my salary, and such copyrights are therefore owned by the Company. With respect to all other Company IP, or to the extent not otherwise vested in the Company by operation of law, I will hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of the Company, and hereby assign to the Company, or its designee, for no additional consideration, all of my right, title and interest in and to any and all Company IP. I further hereby waive and irrevocably quitclaim to the Company or its designee any and all claims, of any nature whatsoever, that I now have or may hereafter have for infringement of any Company IP. If I have any rights to Company IP that cannot be assigned to the Company, I hereby grant to the Company a perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide, fully transferable and sublicensable (through multiple tiers), exclusive right and license to practice and exploit such rights and to make, have made, copy, modify, prepare derivative works of, use, sell, import, and otherwise distribute and commercialize any Company products or services that may practice such rights. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the extent I have any rights of attribution, paternity, integrity, modification, disclosure and withdrawal, and any other rights throughout the world that may be known as or referred to as “moral rights,” “artist’s rights,” “droit moral,” or the like (“Moral Rights”) in Company IP that cannot be assigned or exclusively licensed under applicable law, I hereby waive and agree not to enforce any such Moral Rights, including without limitation any limitation on subsequent modification, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

 

(iii) Further Assurances; Power of Attorney. During and after the Relationship, I agree to reasonably cooperate with the Company, at the Company’s expense and within the Company’s timeframe, to: (i) apply for, obtain, perfect, and transfer to the Company all Company IP; and (ii) maintain, protect, and enforce the same, including without limitation by participating in litigation and regulatory proceedings, as well as executing and delivering to the Company any and all applications, oaths, declarations, affidavits, waivers, assignments, and other documents and instruments requested by the Company. I hereby irrevocably grant the Company a power of attorney to execute and deliver any such documents on my behalf in my name and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to transfer the Company IP to the Company and further the transfer, issuance, prosecution, and maintenance of all IP Rights therein, to the fullest extent permitted by law, if I do not promptly cooperate with the Company’s requests (and without limiting any other rights or remedies the Company may have in such circumstances). The foregoing power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall not be affected by my subsequent incapacity.

 

(iv)       Publicity. I hereby consent to any and all uses and displays by the Company Group and its agents of my name, voice, likeness, image, appearance, and biographical information in any media, at any time during or after the Relationship, for all legitimate promotional, marketing, and educational purposes of the Company Group in connection with the Relationship. I hereby forever release the Company Group and its directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, damages, losses, costs, expenses, and liabilities of any kind, arising under any legal or equitable theory whatsoever, relating to any such permitted use of any of the foregoing.

 

3. Privacy.

 

(a) Personal Information Definition. “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household.

 

(b) Privacy Notice. I acknowledge that:

 

(i) the Company Group collects certain Personal Information about me, which may include contact information, identification materials, demographic information, professional information, education and training information, financial information, benefits information, security credentials, information about my activity on and use of the Company Group’s facilities and its telecommunications, networking and information processing systems, as well as other work related information. The Company Group may collect such information directly from me as well as from supervisors, colleagues, customers, vendors, publicly available sources and other third parties I may interact with as an employee of the Company.

 

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In addition, the Company Group may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on the Company Group’s behalf, such as communications providers, payroll providers and benefits providers; and (ii) the Company Group uses my Personal Information in the ordinary course of business for purposes such as: recruiting, onboarding, staffing, leave, personnel evaluations, promotions, performance management, training, discipline; supporting and managing personnel; managing access to or use of company systems, facilities, records, property and infrastructure; monitoring employee conduct and compliance with the Company Group’s policies and practices; improving efficiency; compensation, payroll, and benefit planning and administration; managing business travel; communicating with and between personnel, as well as with designated emergency contacts; investigating, documenting and reporting work-related injuries, illnesses, or grievances; conducting other internal investigations, audits, and risk assessments; fulfilling contractual obligations to personnel and third parties; and complying with applicable laws.

 

4. Company Property.

 

(a) Company Equipment; Returning Company Documents. I acknowledge that I have no expectation of privacy with respect to the Company Group’s telecommunications, networking or information processing systems (including, without limitation, files, email messages, and voice messages) and that my activity and any files or messages on or using any of those systems may be monitored or reviewed at any time without notice. I further acknowledge that any property situated on the Company Group’s premises or systems and owned by the Company Group, including storage media, filing cabinets or other work areas, is subject to inspection by the Company Group’s personnel at any time with or without notice. At the time of termination of the Relationship, I will deliver to the Company (and will not keep in my possession, recreate or deliver to anyone else) any and all devices, records, data, notes, reports, proposals, lists, correspondence, specifications, drawings, blueprints, sketches, laboratory notebooks, materials, flow charts, equipment, other documents or property, or reproductions of any of the aforementioned items developed by me pursuant to the Relationship or otherwise belonging to the Company Group.

 

(b) Company Data. I acknowledge that my work may involve dealing with information (including Confidential Information) relating to the Company Group’s customers, potential customers, end-users, suppliers, potential suppliers, employees, independent contractors and other personnel, and others with whom the Company Group has a relationship, including, without limitation, unique identifiers, financial, health, educational, biometric, online activity, location, employment details, and derived profiles (collectively, “Company Data”). I am aware of the need to adhere to privacy laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for health information, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), among other laws and regulations related to Company Data. I will protect Company Data with strong security measures, restricting data access to authorized personnel, and ensuring compliance with legal standards for handling and disclosing such information. If a data breach occurs, I will promptly report it and assist in the response. I will also follow the Company’s privacy policies, stay informed about privacy obligations, and participate in necessary training. I will treat Company Data as confidential and in compliance with all applicable laws, and will not collect, use, retain or disclose Company Data for any purpose other than as necessary for the purpose of performing legitimate business activities within the scope of the Relationship. I acknowledge that failure to adhere to the policies, procedures, contractual restrictions, and instructions that the Company Group has implemented to protect the privacy and security of Company Data is a violation of the terms of my employment. I further acknowledge that, without limiting other potential remedies, any such failure may result in termination of my employment.

 

5. Non-Solicit.

 

(a) Generally. As described above, I acknowledge that the Company Group’s Confidential Information includes information relating to the Company Group’s customers, potential customers, end-users, suppliers, potential suppliers, employees, independent contractors, and other personnel, and others, and I will not use or disclose such Confidential Information except as authorized by the Company in advance in writing. I further agree as follows:

 

(i) Employees and Independent Contractors. During the Relationship, and for a period of twelve (12) months immediately following the termination of the Relationship for any reason (the “Restriction Period”), whether with or without cause, I shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit any of the Company Group’s employees or independent contractors with whom I have worked or otherwise had contact during the Relationship or with respect to whom I have Confidential Information to terminate their relationship with the Company Group, either for myself or for any other person or entity.

 

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(ii) Other Parties. During the Relationship, I will not solicit or influence or attempt to influence any actual or potential customer, either directly or indirectly, to direct any purchase of products and/or services to any person, firm, corporation, institution or other entity in competition with the business of the Company Group.

 

(b) Notice to Third Parties. During the Restriction Period, I shall inform any entity or person with whom I may seek to enter into a business relationship (whether as an owner, employee, independent contractor or otherwise) of my contractual obligations under this Agreement. I acknowledge that the Company Group may, with or without prior notice to me and whether during or after the Relationship, notify third parties of my agreements and obligations under this Agreement. To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, upon written request by the Company Group, I will respond to the Company Group in writing regarding the status of my employment or proposed employment with any party during the Restriction Period.

 

6. Representations and Covenants.

 

(a) AI Technology. Without limiting any of my other obligations under this Agreement, I will not: (i) input any Confidential Information (including, without limitation, any Company Data) into any software, application, technology or platform that leverages machine learning (including, without limitation, any artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence, predictive artificial intelligence, and other applied statistics) (collectively, “AI Technology”); or (ii) use any AI Technology or any output of any AI Technology in connection with the Relationship, including, without limitation, in the development of any Company IP; in each case of (i) or (ii), except in accordance with the Company’s then-current policies and procedures (if any) or as otherwise expressly authorized by the Company in writing.

 

(b) Facilitation of Agreement. I shall execute promptly, both during and after the end of the Relationship, any proper oath, and to verify any proper document, required to carry out the terms of this Agreement, upon the Company’s written request to do so.

 

(c) No Conflicts. I acknowledge and agree that I have a duty of loyalty to the Company during the course of the Relationship. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable laws, while I render services to the Company, I will not engage in, launch, or encourage others to launch any other company, venture, employment, consulting project or other business activity (whether on a full- or part-time basis) that would create a conflict of interest with the Company Group or that would, directly or indirectly, constitute my engagement in or participation in any business that is competitive in any manner with the Company Group’s business, nor will I solicit or influence or attempt to influence any actual or potential customer to direct any purchase of products and/or services to any person, firm, corporation, institution or other entity in competition with the business of the Company Group with respect to such products and/or services. I represent and warrant that my performance of my duties for the Company and all the terms of this Agreement does not and will not breach any agreement I have entered into, or will enter into, with any third party (including without limitation any former employer), including without limitation any agreement to keep in confidence proprietary information or materials acquired by me in confidence or in trust prior to or during the Relationship. I will not induce the Company Group to use any inventions, confidential or non-public proprietary information, or material belonging to any previous client, employer or any other party. I shall not enter into any written or oral agreement that conflicts with the provisions of this Agreement without the Company’s prior written consent.

 

(d) Voluntary Execution. I certify and acknowledge that I have carefully read all of the provisions of this Agreement, that I understand and have voluntarily accepted such provisions, and that I will fully and faithfully comply with such provisions.

 

7. Acknowledgment. I acknowledge that the duties to be performed by me for the Company are of a special and unique character, that I will obtain knowledge and skill relevant to the Company’s industry, methods of doing business, and marketing strategies by virtue of my employment, and I agree that the terms of this Agreement are reasonable under such circumstances. I further acknowledge that the amount of my compensation reflects, in part, my obligations and the Company’s rights under this Agreement and I have no expectation of any additional compensation, royalties, or other payment of any kind in connection with my performance of this Agreement, that I will not be subject to undue hardship by reason of my full compliance with this Agreement or the Company’s enforcement thereof.

 

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8. Miscellaneous.

 

(a) Governing Law. The validity, interpretation, construction and performance of this Agreement, and all acts and transactions pursuant hereto and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed, construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the state in which I am employed by the Company, or, if I am a remote employee, reside, without giving effect to any principles of conflict of laws that would lead to the application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

 

(b) Entire Agreement. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding between the Company and me relating to its subject matter and merges and supersedes all prior discussions between us, provided that this Agreement shall not supersede or be superseded by, and shall be read in conjunction with, any arbitration agreement, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreement or other restrictive covenants entered into between the parties to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law. No amendment to this Agreement will be effective unless in writing signed by both parties to this Agreement. The Company shall not be deemed hereby to have waived any rights or remedies it may have in law or equity, nor to have given any authorizations or waived any of its rights under this Agreement, unless, and only to the extent, it does so by a specific writing signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company, it being understood that, even if I am an officer of the Company, I will not have authority to give any such authorizations or waivers for the Company under this Agreement without specific approval by the Board of Directors. Any subsequent change or changes in my duties, obligations, rights or compensation will not affect the validity or scope of this Agreement.

 

(c) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement will be binding upon my heirs, executors, administrators and other legal representatives, and my successors and assigns, and will be for the benefit of the Company, its successors, and its assigns.

 

(d) Notices. Any notice, demand or request required or permitted to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed sufficient when delivered personally or by overnight courier or sent by email, or forty-eight (48) hours after being deposited in the U.S. mail as certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, addressed to the party to be notified at such party’s address as set forth on the signature page, as subsequently modified by written notice, or if no address is specified on the signature page, at the most recent address set forth in the Company’s books and records.

 

(e) Severability. If one or more of the provisions in this Agreement are deemed void or unenforceable to any extent in any context, such provisions shall nevertheless be enforced to the fullest extent allowed by law in that and other contexts, and the validity and force of the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected. The Company and I have attempted to limit my right to use, maintain and disclose the Company Group’s Confidential Information, and to limit my restrictions only to the extent necessary to protect the Company Group from unfair competition. Should a court of competent jurisdiction determine that the scope of the covenants contained in this Agreement exceeds the maximum restrictiveness such court deems reasonable and enforceable, the parties intend that the court should reform, modify and enforce the provision to such narrower scope as it determines to be reasonable and enforceable under the circumstances existing at that time.

 

(f) Remedies. I acknowledge that violation of this Agreement by me may cause the Company irreparable harm, and therefore I agree that the Company will be entitled to seek extraordinary relief in court, including, but not limited to, temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions and permanent injunctions, in addition to and without prejudice to any other rights or remedies that the Company may have for a breach of this Agreement.

 

(g) Advice of Counsel. I acknowledge that, in executing this agreement, I have had the opportunity to seek the advice of independent legal counsel, and I have read and understood all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement shall not be construed against any party by reason of the drafting or preparation hereof.

 

(h) Survival. The terms and provisions that reasonably should survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement in order to give proper effect to its nature or intent shall survive such termination or expiration.

 

(i) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Execution via an electronic signature system, facsimile copy or scanned image will have the same force and effect as execution of an original, and an electronic signature, facsimile or scanned image signature will be deemed an original and valid signature.

 

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The parties have executed this Employee Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement on the respective dates set forth below, to be effective as of the Effective Date first above written.

 

  THE COMPANY:
     
  INmune Bio Inc.
     
  By: /s/ David Moss
  (Signature)
  Name: David Moss
  Title: Chief Executive Officer
     
  Address:
  225 NE Mizner Blvd., STE 640
  Boca Raton, FL 33432 USA
   
  Date: November 26, 2025
   
  EMPLOYEE:
   
  By: /s/ Mark Lowdell
  (Signature)
  Name:  Mark Lowdell, PhD
   
  Date: November 26, 2025

 

 

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