---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000909108-25-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000909108"
company_name: "DIAMOND HILL INVESTMENT GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:51:47.872940+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Diamond Hill appoints portfolio manager Austin Hawley to board, expanding size to 7

## Summary
- Austin Hawley, CFA, portfolio manager of Large Cap, Large Cap Concentrated, and Select strategies, appointed director on May 27, 2025.
- Board increased from six to seven directors; Hawley is not independent and will not serve on any board committees.
- Hawley received 2024 compensation: $300K base salary, $2.31M cash incentive, $750K restricted stock (vests 2025-2027).
- In 2025, Hawley received $2.02M cash incentive and 33,000 restricted shares ($4.915M) cliff vesting Jan 1, 2030.
- Hawley's term runs until 2026 Annual Meeting; he will stand for election by shareholders at that time.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000909108-25-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000909108
- company_name: DIAMOND HILL INVESTMENT GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909108/000090910825000030/0000909108-25-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909108/000090910825000030/dhil-20250527.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000909108-25-000030
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000909108-25-000030.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000909108-25-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Austin Hawley was appointed as director at DIAMOND HILL INVESTMENT GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On May 27, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Austin Hawley to serve as a director of the Company for a term ending at the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “2026 Annual Meeting”) and until his successor has been duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909108/000090910825000030/0000909108-25-000030-index.htm

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