---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000912463-24-000061"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000912463"
company_name: "GUESS INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:46:29.073433+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Guess? CFO Markus Neubrand resigns; Dennis Secor named interim CFO effective Aug 26

## Summary
- Markus Neubrand resigns as CFO effective Aug 26, 2024; will remain employee through Sept 30 for transition.
- Dennis Secor, former CFO (2006-2012), appointed interim CFO effective Aug 26, 2024.
- Secor's agreement: base salary $750k through Mar 2025 then $240k; retention bonus $350k if employed through Aug 25, 2025.
- Company initiates search for permanent CFO based in Lugano, Switzerland with executive search firm.
- Secor receives RSU award: shares = ($500k / closing price) - 6,462, vesting Aug 25, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000912463-24-000061
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000912463
- company_name: GUESS INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246324000061/0000912463-24-000061-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246324000061/ges-20240815.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912463-24-000061
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912463-24-000061.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Markus Neubrand resigned as Chief Financial Officer at GUESS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 15, 2024, Markus Neubrand, the Chief Financial Officer of Guess?, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that he is resigning as an officer of the Company effective August 26, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246324000061/0000912463-24-000061-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dennis Secor was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at GUESS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Dennis Secor as interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with such appointment to be effective on August 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246324000061/0000912463-24-000061-index.htm

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