2026-08-26
CONDUENT Inc
Scott Letier departed as director and Audit Committee Chair effective August 26, 2026, upon satisfaction of conditions in a shareholders agreement following Darwin Deason's death in December 2025.
high
Risk API
Detecting executive changes from 8-K filings
Item 5.02 is where a company discloses that a director or principal officer arrived or left. It is one of the most-watched events in the form and one of the hardest to classify, for a reason worth knowing before you build on it.
The problem
A company files an 8-K on a Friday afternoon saying the CFO has resigned, effective immediately. Nobody on your side sees it until it turns up in a news summary days later, by which time the interesting question, which was how abrupt it looked, is no longer answerable from the filing.
The code is ambiguous by design
Item 5.02 covers departures AND appointments in a single code, so the structural signal that makes the rest of the form tractable stops short exactly here. Separating the two means reading the filing.
An exit does not announce itself
The language is deliberately flat. "Resigned to pursue other interests" and a genuine retirement look identical in structure, and the only difference worth acting on, whether it was abrupt, sits in the prose.
Volume
Item 5.02 is one of the most frequently filed items on the form. Pulling everything and reading it yourself is real work, most of which is routine board appointments.
The request
One callGET /risks/v1/events ?event_type=exec_departure &min_severity=high &since=2026-08-13
Swap event_type for exec_appointment to get the other half. Both carry the item codes on the row, so you can always check the classification against the filing yourself.
event_type
exec_departure or exec_appointment. Where the filing is genuinely ambiguous this defaults to the departure, because hiding an exit is the error that costs you something.
affected_role
The role, such as CEO or CFO. A role, never a person: every structured field on this product is business level.
is_abrupt
Whether the filing reads as an immediate exit rather than a planned transition. This is the field the prose exists to answer.
summary
Up to 240 characters written from the filing text. On a departure this can name the executive, because the filing does.
item_codes
The codes as filed, so the category is checkable rather than asserted.
source_url
The filing on sec.gov. Cite that, not us.
The first 3 rows that call returns
Live, newest first2026-08-25
Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
Chinh Chu resigned effective immediately as a member of the Board of Directors and Compensation Committee. Resignation not due to disagreement with Company.
high
2026-08-25
MCCORMICK & CO INC
Anne Bramman resigned from Board effective November 30, 2026, stepping down as Audit Committee Chair effective September 1, 2026, due to appointment as EVP/CFO at Best Buy Co., Inc.
high
What to know before you build on it
- Poll on your own schedule. There is no alerting and no webhook delivery, so this is a list you pull rather than a stream you subscribe to.
- The data is refreshed daily, not in real time. A filing that lands after the pass appears the next morning.
- event_date and filed_at are different fields. Most filings close the gap in a day or two, but a late or amended filing can report an event from much earlier, so sort on the one you actually mean.
- Severity is a sorting aid assigned by a model reading the filing text. It is not a rating and it is not advice.
Common questions
Which 8-K item covers a CEO change?
Item 5.02, "Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers". The single code covers both directions, which is why a departure and an appointment cannot be told apart from the code alone.
Can I filter for abrupt departures only?
Every record carries is_abrupt, and the promoted high and critical view is the fastest way to get to the ones worth reading. Combine min_severity=high with event_type=exec_departure.
Try it
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