---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000745732-21-000044"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROST"
cik: "0000745732"
company_name: "ROSS STORES, INC."
filed_at: "2021-07-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T05:33:06.192969+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ross Stores CFO Travis Marquette resigns; COO Michael Hartshorn named interim

## Summary
- Travis Marquette resigned as EVP, CFO, and Principal Accounting Officer effective July 12, 2021, to accept another position.
- Michael Hartshorn, Group President and COO, will serve as interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer.
- Company expects to announce permanent finance leadership changes in the coming months; senior finance team reports to Hartshorn.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000745732-21-000044
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROST
- cik: 0000745732
- company_name: ROSS STORES, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-07-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573221000044/0000745732-21-000044-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573221000044/rost-20210712.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000745732-21-000044
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000745732-21-000044.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000745732-21-000044.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Travis Marquette resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at ROSS STORES, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective July 12, 2021, Travis Marquette resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of Ross Stores, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573221000044/0000745732-21-000044-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael J. Hartshorn was appointed as interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer at ROSS STORES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer
  source text: Michael J. Hartshorn, the Company’s Group President and Chief Operating Officer, will act as interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573221000044/0000745732-21-000044-index.htm

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