---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000876523-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EZPW"
cik: "0000876523"
company_name: "EZCORP INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T09:36:32.862716+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EZCORP appoints Michael Croney as CAO, replacing Robert Hicks effective Feb 10, 2025

## Summary
- Michael Croney named Chief Accounting Officer, effective February 10, 2025.
- Croney previously served as EZCORP VP and Global Controller (2019–2023).
- Compensation: $330K salary, $165K STI target, $105K LTI target, plus $180K signing bonus.
- Robert Hicks vacates CAO role; will serve as Deputy CAO through February 2025, then depart.
- Croney is a CPA and Chartered Accountant (South Africa); most recently CAO at Thrive Pet Healthcare.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000876523-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EZPW
- cik: 0000876523
- company_name: EZCORP INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/876523/000087652325000008/0000876523-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/876523/000087652325000008/ezpw-20250106.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000876523-25-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Croney was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at EZCORP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: EZCORP, Inc. (“the Company”) has appointed Michael Croney as Chief Accounting Officer (principal accounting officer), effective February 10, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/876523/000087652325000008/0000876523-25-000008-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert J. Hicks departed as Chief Accounting Officer at EZCORP INC.
  - Action: vacated
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Mr. Hicks will remain with the Company as Deputy Chief Accounting Officer until the end of February 2025, at which time he will depart the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/876523/000087652325000008/0000876523-25-000008-index.htm

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