New CEO & Executive Changes: SEC 8-K Item 5.02 Leadership Alerts

Get a daily list of new CEOs, CFOs, C-suite hires and board changes at US public companies, straight from official SEC 8-K filings. Each result is one leadership-change filing with who was appointed or is leaving, their role, whether it's interim, plus the company's ticker, industry, address and phone. No API key, no login, no scraping of news sites. The data comes from the SEC's public EDGAR system.

A new executive is the classic sales trigger: new leaders review vendors, budgets and teams in their first 90 days. A sudden CFO or CEO exit is also a market-moving signal for investors. This Actor turns the SEC's 8-K feed into a clean, filterable list you can drop into a CRM, a spreadsheet, a Slack channel or a trading model.

What is an 8-K Item 5.02?

US public companies must file a Form 8-K within four business days of a major event. Item 5.02 covers the "departure of directors or certain officers; election of directors; appointment of certain officers". So every new CEO, CFO, COO, President, chief accounting officer and director, and every resignation, retirement or firing in those roles, is disclosed here, often before it shows up on LinkedIn or in the news. Roughly 40-90 of these filings land every business day.

What you get for each filing

Field	Example
companyName, ticker	Align Technology Inc, ALGN
headline	Appointed: Jennifer L. Davis (CEO, President, Director)
changes	one entry per person: person, changeType (appointment / departure), roles, interim
appointments, departures	the people joining and leaving, as plain lists
rolesAffected	CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CMO, CRO, CHRO, CAO, President, Chair, Director, ...
isCeoChange, isCfoChange, isCSuiteChange, isBoardChange, hasInterimAppointment	ready-made filters for your CRM or model
eventDate, filedDate, acceptedAt	when it happened and when the SEC got it
item502Text	the full Item 5.02 text from the filing, so you can read the details (start dates, pay, background)
industry, sic	SEC industry classification
street, city, state, zipCode, phone	company HQ address and phone from the filing
otherItems	other 8-K items in the same filing (for example 2.02 earnings, 1.01 deals)
filingUrl, documentUrl	links to the original filing on sec.gov

Sample results table

Real C-suite changes found in one run on Oct 29, 2026, from 8-Ks filed Oct 27-28. The full output also has the full Item 5.02 text, the address, phone and sec.gov links.

Company	Ticker	Change	SEC industry	Event date
Align Technology Inc	ALGN	Appointed: Jennifer L. Davis (CEO, President, Director)	Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances	2026-10-26
HF Sinclair Corp	DINO	Appointed: Steve Ledbetter (CEO, President)	Pipe Lines	2026-10-28
Q2 Holdings, Inc.	QTWO	Appointed: Jonathan A. Price (Co-CEO)	Prepackaged Software	2026-10-28
Etsy Inc	ETSY	Departing: Lanny Baker (CFO)	Business Services	2026-10-23
Parsons Corp	PSN	Departing: Matt Ofilos (CFO); Appointed: George Ball (interim CFO)	Computer Integrated Systems Design	2026-10-23
Radian Group Inc	RDN	Appointed: Daniel Kobell (EVP, CFO)	Surety Insurance	2026-10-28
Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc	ENTA	Appointed: Tara L. Kieffer (COO)	Pharmaceutical Preparations	2026-10-28
Monroe Federal Bancorp, Inc.	MFBI	Departing: Lewis R. Renollet (CEO); Appointed: Charles G. Brown (CEO)	Savings Institution	2026-10-26

Example output (JSON)

A real result from a run on Oct 29, 2026, shortened: item502Text, the street address and phone are cut here but are included in the real output.

{
  "companyName": "Parsons Corp",
  "ticker": "PSN",
  "cik": "275880",
  "filedDate": "2026-10-28",
  "eventDate": "2026-10-23",
  "formType": "8-K",
  "headline": "Departing: Matt Ofilos (CFO); Appointed: George Ball (interim CFO)",
  "changes": [
    { "person": "Matt Ofilos", "changeType": "departure", "roles": ["CFO"], "interim": false },
    { "person": "George Ball", "changeType": "appointment", "roles": ["CFO"], "interim": true }
  ],
  "appointments": ["George Ball"],
  "departures": ["Matt Ofilos"],
  "rolesAffected": ["CFO"],
  "isCSuiteChange": true,
  "isCeoChange": false,
  "isCfoChange": true,
  "isBoardChange": false,
  "hasInterimAppointment": true,
  "otherItems": ["9.01"],
  "item502Text": "Departure of Chief Financial Officer On October 23, 2026, Matt Ofilos, the Chief Financial Officer (\"CFO\") of Parsons Corporation ... notified the Corporation of his decision to resign ...",
  "industry": "Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/275880/..."
}

Try it free in one click

The input is prefilled: the last 3 days of filings, C-suite changes only, capped at 50 results (at most $0.50). Click Start and you'll have a list in a couple of minutes. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, which covers this test run.

Use cases

• Sales prospecting (trigger-based selling): reach a new CFO, CTO or CRO in their first 90 days, when they pick new vendors. Filter roles to the buyer you sell to.
• Executive search and recruiting: every departure is an open seat, and every new leader rebuilds a team.
• Investors and traders: sudden CEO or CFO exits, interim appointments and board shake-ups, by ticker, the day they're filed.
• PR, IR and consulting firms: new leaders hire new advisers.
• Market research and journalism: count leadership turnover by industry, state or month.

How to use it

1. Set Days back (default 3) or a Start date / End date.
2. Narrow it down with C-suite changes only, Roles (for example CFO, CTO), Change types (appointments or departures), Watchlist tickers, HQ states or Industry keywords.
3. Leave Exclude investment funds on to drop closed-end funds and trusts.
4. Click Start. Results appear in the Output tab and can be exported to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

Daily monitor (recommended)

Turn on Only new since my last run and add a Schedule (Apify Console → Schedules → daily at 7am). Each run returns only filings you haven't received yet, so you pay only for new changes. Connect the run to Zapier, Make, Slack or email with Apify integrations.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.01 per leadership-change filing returned ($10 per 1,000). The 8-Ks without Item 5.02 and anything your filters drop are free. There is no start fee. Set Maximum results to cap the cost of any run. A daily C-suite-only monitor typically returns 10-30 filings a day.

Input example

{
  "daysBack": 7,
  "cSuiteOnly": true,
  "roles": ["CFO", "CTO", "CRO"],
  "changeTypes": ["appointment"],
  "industryKeywords": ["Software", "Pharmaceutical"],
  "listedOnly": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. 8-K filings are public records published by the SEC on EDGAR. The Actor uses the SEC's official public index and filing files, identifies itself with a User-Agent and contact email, and stays under the SEC's fair-access rate limit (10 requests per second).

How fresh is the data? Filings show up the same business day. The Actor reads the SEC's nightly daily index for past days and the EDGAR "latest filings" feed for today.

How are names and roles extracted? Item 5.02 is free text, so the Actor parses it with rules tuned on real filings (appointed / elected / named / resigned / retiring / stepping down, plus Mr./Ms. references). It handles most filings well. The full item502Text is always included so you can check the source, and dataQualityFlags marks filings where no person could be parsed (for example compensation-only pay updates). Turn on Only filings with named people to drop those.

Are there email addresses? No. 8-Ks don't include emails. You get the person's name and role, plus the company HQ phone and address. Pair this Actor with an email-finder Actor if you need emails.

Does it cover private companies? No. Only SEC-reporting companies file 8-Ks. For private companies that just raised money, see the Form D Actor below.

Can I call it from code or an AI agent? Yes, through the Apify API, the Python/JS clients, or the Apify MCP server.

Can I get older data? Yes, set a Start date. EDGAR has 8-Ks going back to the 1990s, and item-level tagging back to 2004.

Limits and notes

• The Actor reads every 8-K header (about 300-700 a day) to find the Item 5.02 ones, so a 3-day run takes about 3-5 minutes.
• Roles held at other companies (for example "previously CEO of Yum! Brands") are ignored. Only the role at the filing company is reported.
• This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Keywords

new CEO alerts, executive changes, leadership changes, C-suite hires, new CFO list, executive appointments, executive departures, board of directors changes, 8-K Item 5.02, SEC 8-K scraper, sales triggers, trigger events, job change alerts, management changes API, EDGAR scraper.

Related Actors (Tiny Labs SEC data suite)

• Recently Funded Companies: SEC Form D Funding Leads: private companies that just raised money, with amount, executives and phone.
• SEC Insider Buying Tracker: open-market insider purchases and cluster buys from SEC Form 4.
• IPO Pipeline Tracker: New SEC S-1 & F-1 Filings: companies that just filed to go public, with proposed ticker, price range and underwriters.

Support

Found a bug or want a new field or filter? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and it will be answered within two business days.