---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000045919-25-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HHS"
cik: "0000045919"
company_name: "HARTE HANKS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:39:46.660039+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Kirk Davis departs Harte Hanks; David Fisher named Interim COO

## Summary
- Kirk Davis steps down as CEO effective Feb 14, 2025 for personal reasons; no disagreements with the company.
- Board appoints David Fisher as Interim COO effective Jan 27, 2025; Fisher was Chief Transformation Officer.
- Company retains executive search firm to identify a new CEO with AI and data-driven transformation expertise.
- Fisher receives annual base salary of $375,000, target bonus of 100% of salary, and 32,400 share option grant.
- Davis eligible to exercise 80,000 options at $5.59/share within 90 days post-departure; unvested options expire.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000045919-25-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HHS
- cik: 0000045919
- company_name: HARTE HANKS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000004591925000002/0000045919-25-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000004591925000002/hhs-20250123.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000045919-25-000002
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000045919-25-000002.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000045919-25-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kirk Davis departed as Chief Executive Officer at HARTE HANKS INC.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Kirk Davis departing the Company effective as of February 14, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000004591925000002/0000045919-25-000002-index.htm
- Executive change
  David Fisher was appointed as Interim Chief Operating Officer at HARTE HANKS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Operating Officer
  source text: appointing David Fisher to serve as the Interim Chief Operating Officer, effective as of this date
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45919/000004591925000002/0000045919-25-000002-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.