Executive Changes Tracker — New CEO/CFO/Exec Alerts

Job-change trigger leads without LinkedIn — newly announced executive appointments, departures and promotions from mandatory SEC disclosures and official press releases. ToS-clean and GDPR-defensible: statutory public disclosures and syndication-intended newswire releases, never contact-detail scraping.

Source-cited senior appointment triggers — API-first, no CRM contract, no contact enrichment, pay only for records.

When a company gets a new CEO, CFO or VP of Sales, budgets move, stacks get reviewed and agencies get hired. US public companies must file an 8-K Item 5.02 within 4 business days of any senior officer or director change — this actor turns that legal obligation (plus official newswire people-moves releases) into clean, source-cited trigger leads.

Who uses this

• B2B sales / GTM engineers — "new exec in role" is one of the highest-converting outreach triggers. Clean JSON output is Clay- and webhook-friendly: pipe records straight into enrichment tables or sequences.
• Recruiters — every departure record is an open seat; every appointment is a fresh decision-maker to pitch.
• PR & agencies — new CMOs/CEOs review agencies in their first 100 days.
• Investors & analysts — systematic monitoring of leadership churn across filers.

Sources (all legal/official — explicitly NOT LinkedIn)

Source	What	Coverage
sec	SEC EDGAR full-text search for 8-K Item 5.02 filings (Departure/Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers), item-code verified, primary document parsed	US public companies, statutory, ~20-60 filings/day
newswires	GlobeNewswire Directors and Officers people-moves feed (official corporate press releases)	Public + private companies, global, most recent releases
Companies House (opt-in)	UK statutory officer appointments/resignations for company numbers you watch — only when you supply your own free API key; skipped otherwise	UK registered companies

PR Newswire and Business Wire subject feeds are not included: PRN's personnel RSS redirects to a generic all-news feed and Business Wire's feed has been deactivated (verified empirically). The SEC + GlobeNewswire pair already yields deep, verifiable coverage.

Output

One record per detected person-level change (dates in ISO YYYY-MM-DD):

{
  "source": "sec",
  "company": "Coronado Global Resources Inc.",
  "ticker": "CODQL",
  "cik": "0001770561",
  "person": "Sandeep Deoji",
  "role": "CFO",
  "changeType": "appointed",
  "announcedDate": "2026-07-14",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-08-01",
  "headline": "8-K Item 5.02 — Coronado Global Resources Inc.",
  "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1770561/000110465926083237/tm2620319d1_8k.htm",
  "snippet": "...the Board appointed Sandeep Deoji, the Company's current Vice President, Group Financial Control, to serve as the Company's Interim Chief Financial Officer...",
  "confidence": "high",
  "dedupeKey": "coronadoglobalresourcesinc|sandeepdeoji|cfo|appointed"
}

• changeType: appointed | departed | promoted | unknown (ambiguous filings are kept as unknown rather than dropped).
• confidence: high (person + role + change verb all matched), medium (partial match), low (no person extracted — the record is kept with snippet + url so you can verify in one click).
• dedupeKey: stable slug of company+person+role+changeType — records are deduped across sources within a run; use it to dedupe across your own runs too.
• snippet: ≤300-char evidence excerpt. We sell event metadata + source URL + short evidence — never article text.
• Person-name extraction is heuristic (capitalized-name-near-role-keyword). Compensation-only and amendment 8-K filings are filtered out.

Input

Field	Default	Description
daysBack	3	Days of announcements to scan (1-30)
roles	all senior roles	CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO, CMO, CHRO, President, Chairman, Vice President, Head of, Managing Director, General Counsel, Board Director
sources	["sec","newswires"]	Which sources to scan
maxItems	100	Stop after this many records
companiesHouseApiKey	(empty)	Optional, secret. Enables the UK Companies House source
companiesHouseCompanyNumbers	[]	UK company numbers to watch (used only with a key)

The default run needs NO API keys and returns real records (typically 50-100+ for the last 3 days).

Compliance & data minimization

• What is collected: person name + role + company + dates + the public source URL. Never emails, phone numbers, home addresses, or any contact details — no enrichment, no cross-referencing.
• Where it comes from: statutory filings (SEC EDGAR — US government public-domain data; UK Companies House statutory register) and official corporate press releases distributed for syndication. No LinkedIn, no social scraping, no logins, no cookies.
• Retention: records live only in your run's dataset; the actor keeps nothing beyond it.
• Removal/suppression: if a data subject asks you to remove them, delete the record from your systems — and note the original disclosure remains in the public statutory source. Suppression requests relating to this actor's listing can be sent to the author via the Apify issue tab.
• Your obligations: if you use these triggers for direct outreach, you are the controller for that processing — GDPR Art. 14 transparency and right-to-object handling are on you. This actor's design (statutory/press sources, no contact data) is built to keep the sourcing side defensible.

SEC fair access

Every SEC request sends a descriptive User-Agent and the actor stays well under the SEC's 10 req/s fair-access ceiling (throttled to <4 req/s with retries + exponential backoff). Per-source failures are tolerated; the run only fails if all sources fail.

Suggested pricing (for operators renting this actor)

Pay-per-result at $0.05-$0.10 per qualified record fits this data: these are timing-sensitive trigger leads (a new CFO is worth a sequence, not a spreadsheet row), and Apify is retiring rental pricing in 2026 — pay-per-result/pay-per-event is the forward-compatible model. A free sample angle works well: e.g. the last 48 hours / first 25 records free, paid beyond that.