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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000829323-22-000018
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20220328
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20220328
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20220328

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Inuvo, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000829323
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-ADVERTISING [7310]
		IRS NUMBER:				870450450
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NV
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32442
		FILM NUMBER:		22775874

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 PRESIDENT CLINTON AVE., STE. 300
		CITY:			LITTLE ROCK
		STATE:			AR
		ZIP:			72201
		BUSINESS PHONE:		501-205-8508

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 PRESIDENT CLINTON AVE., STE. 300
		CITY:			LITTLE ROCK
		STATE:			AR
		ZIP:			72201

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	INUVO, INC.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20090810

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	KOWABUNGA! INC.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20081106

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	THINK PARTNERSHIP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20060315
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Arrangements of Certain Officers</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">On March 25, 2022, Inuvo, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) announced the election of (a)&#160;Jonathan Bond to the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) as a Class II director, effective March 25, 2022, to serve until the 2022 annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is duly elected&#59; and (b)&#160;Kenneth Lee to the Company&#8217;s Board as a Class III director, effective March 25, 2022, to serve until the 2023 annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is duly elected. Messrs. Bond and Lee were elected to fill vacancies on the Board, which brings the total number of directors on the Board to six.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Mr.&#160;Bond is one of the advertising&#160;and marketing industry&#8217;s most recognized thought leaders and entrepreneurs, with over 35&#160;years of experience.&#160;He&#160;previously was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal &#38; Partners LLC&#160;(&#8220;KBP&#8221;). Prior to KBP, Mr.&#160;Bond served as the Chief Executive Officer of Big Fuel (now part of Publicis), one of&#160;the world&#8217;s largest social media agencies that serves blue chip clients. He helped establish </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">iballs</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">, one of the first&#160;online media agencies, which sold to Microsoft in the early 2000s. He also co-founded Media Kitchen and Varick&#160;under the KBP umbrella. From 2015 to December 2016, Mr.&#160;Bond was the founder of Tomorro LLC, an innovation&#160;consultancy. From January 2017 to June 2018, Mr.&#160;Bond was the Co-Chairman at The Shipyard, a full-service&#160;advertising agency focused on data science, which acquired Tomorro LLC. From June 2017 to June 2020, Mr.&#160;Bond&#160;was the Chairman and director of SITO Mobile, Ltd. He is currently fractional CMO&#47;partner of Blue Bear Protection,&#160;Lacure and Halo Collar and a member of the board of directors of Sonobi, Inc. Mr.&#160;Bond has had investments and&#47;or&#160;board roles at White Ops, Compound (formerly known as Metamorphic Ventures), TZP Group, Victors and Spoils&#160;(now part of Havas), Simplifi, Appinions, Data Xu, BlackBook magazine and Klout. Mr.&#160;Bond received a Bachelor&#160;of Arts from Washington University (St. Louis).</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Mr. Lee is a Senior Vice President at Ingalls &#38; Snyder in New York, where he manages and co-manages customized portfolios for private clients, investment partnerships and institutions. Mr. Lee came to Ingalls in 2018 with a group of clients that trace back to Bridgehampton Capital Management LLC, which Mr. Lee founded in 2006, and merged into Tocqueville Asset Management in 2014. Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Lee joined Salomon Brothers Asset Management (SBAM) in 1998 where he managed over $1 billion in convertible and corporate bonds in a multi-strategy hedge fund setting within SBAM. Prior to SBAM, Mr. Lee worked for Brown Brothers Harriman in sell-side equity research focusing on technology and financial services firms. In addition, he has had multiple leadership roles on non-profit boards and is a member of the board of directors of CCX Network, Inc., a private telecommunications identity startup. Mr. Lee has a B.A. in History from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from the Stern School of Business, New York University.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Neither Mr. Bond nor Mr. Lee have any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction with the Company required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. There is no arrangement or understanding between either of Mr. Bond or Mr. Lee and any other person pursuant to which either Mr. Bond or Mr. Lee was selected as a director.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">As with each of the Company&#8217;s independent directors, Messrs. Bond and Lee will each be entitled to receive compensation for service on the Board.  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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i44eba576fdb645f2bc4cd515028aa430_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Inuvo Appoints Leading Ad Industry Executive Jonathan Bond and Senior Capital Markets Executive Kenneth Lee <br>to the Board of Directors</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">LITTLE ROCK, AR, March 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> -- Inuvo, Inc. (NYSE American&#58; INUV), a leading provider of marketing technology, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that serves brands and agencies, today announced the appointments of two new independent members to the Board of Directors&#58; Jonathan Bond, a proven marketing and advertising thought leader and entrepreneur, as well as Kenneth Lee, an accomplished capital markets and investments executive and entrepreneur.  The appointments of Mr. Bond and Mr. Lee increase the Board of Directors to six members. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Rich Howe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Inuvo, commented, &#8220;We are pleased to welcome Jon and Ken to the Inuvo board where their respective experiences, relationships, and leadership complement the successful backgrounds of our current board members.  Jon </font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">brings over 35 years of relevant sector expertise and is one of the industry&#8217;s most recognized thought leaders.&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> Ken brings an impressive track record and decades of experience in portfolio management and corporate finance. We believe their combined skills will support our continued growth as we further establish ourselves as an industry leader by leveraging our first-in-class AI platform.  Moreover, we believe the additions of these two independent directors further reinforces our commitment to the highest levels of corporate governance.&#8221;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Mr.&#160;Bond previously served the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal &#38; Partners LLC&#160;(&#8220;KBP&#8221;), a global advertising and marketing agency. Prior to KBP, Mr.&#160;Bond served as the Chief Executive Officer of Big Fuel (now part of Publicis), one of&#160;the world&#8217;s largest social media agencies that serves blue chip clients. He helped establish </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">iballs</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">, one of the first&#160;online media agencies, which sold to Microsoft in the early 2000s. He also co-founded Media Kitchen and Varick&#160;under the KBP umbrella. From 2015 to December 2016, Mr.&#160;Bond was the founder of Tomorro LLC, an innovation&#160;consultancy. From January 2017 to June 2018, Mr.&#160;Bond was the Co-Chairman at The Shipyard, a full-service&#160;advertising agency focused on data science, which acquired Tomorro LLC. From June 2017 to June 2020, Mr.&#160;Bond&#160;was the Chairman and director of SITO Mobile, Ltd. He is currently fractional CMO&#47;partner of Blue Bear Protection,&#160;Lacure and Halo Collar and a member of the board of directors of Sonobi, Inc. Mr.&#160;Bond has had investments and&#47;or&#160;board roles at White Ops, Compound (formerly known as Metamorphic Ventures), TZP Group, Victors and Spoils&#160;(now part of Havas), Simplifi, Appinions, Data Xu, BlackBook magazine and Klout. Mr.&#160;Bond received a Bachelor&#160;of Arts from Washington University (St. Louis).</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Mr. Lee is a Senior Vice President at Ingalls &#38; Snyder a registered investment advisor and broker-dealer in New York with over $8 billion in assets managed or advised firmwide, where he manages and co-manages customized portfolios for private clients, investment partnerships and institutions. Mr. Lee came to Ingalls in 2018 with a group of clients that trace back to Bridgehampton Capital Management LLC, which Mr. Lee founded in 2006, and merged into Tocqueville Asset Management in 2014. Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Lee joined Salomon Brothers Asset Management (SBAM) in 1998 where he managed over $1 billion in convertible and corporate bonds in a multi-strategy hedge fund setting within SBAM. Prior to SBAM, Mr. Lee worked for Brown Brothers Harriman in sell-side equity research focusing on technology and financial services firms. In addition, he has had multiple leadership roles on non-profit boards and is a member of the board of directors of CCX Network, Inc., a private telecommunications identity startup. Mr. Lee has a B.A. in History from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from the Stern School of Business, New York University.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">About Inuvo</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Inuvo&#174;, Inc. (NYSE American&#58; INUV) is a market leader in Artificial Intelligence built for advertising. Its IntentKey AI solution is a first-of-its-kind proprietary and patented technology capable of identifying and actioning to the reasons why consumers are interested in products, services, or brands, not who those consumers are. To learn more, visit www.inuvo.com.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Safe Harbor &#47; Forward-Looking Statements</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Page 1 of #NUM_PAGES#</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#212529;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">This press release contains &#8220;forward-looking statements&#8221; within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including, without limitation risks detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;), and represent our views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. You are urged to carefully review and consider any cautionary statements and other disclosures, including the statements made under the heading &#34;Risk Factors&#34; in Inuvo, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 as filed on March 17, 2022, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and our other filings with the SEC. &#160;Additionally, forward looking statements are subject to certain risks, trends, and uncertainties including the continued impact of Covid-19 on Inuvo&#8217;s business and operations. Inuvo cannot provide assurances that the assumptions upon which these forward-looking statements are based will prove to have been correct. Should one of these risks materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements, and investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are current only as of this date. Inuvo does not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements made herein or any other forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Inuvo further expressly disclaims any written or oral statements made by a third party regarding the subject matter of this press release. The information, which appears on our websites and our social media platforms is not part of this press release.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Inuvo Company Contact&#58; </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Wally Ruiz  </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Chief Financial Officer </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tel (501) 205-8397 </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">wallace.ruiz&#64;inuvo.com</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Investor Relations&#58;</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">David Waldman &#47; Natalya Rudman</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Crescendo Communications, LLC</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Tel&#58; (212) 671-1020</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">inuv&#64;crescendo-ir.com</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Page 2 of #NUM_PAGES#</font></div></div></div></body></html>
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