---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000934549-22-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACTG"
cik: "0000934549"
company_name: "ACACIA RESEARCH CORP"
filed_at: "2022-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T02:59:59.018333+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acacia Research appoints Kirsten Hoover as Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Kirsten Hoover appointed Principal Accounting Officer effective April 25, 2022; she had rejoined as Controller in October 2021.
- Hoover previously served as Senior Manager of Financial Reporting at Veritone Inc. (VERI) from Dec 2019 to Oct 2021.
- She previously worked at Acacia from 2002 to 2019, initially as Senior Staff Accountant and then as Controller.
- Hoover will enter into Acacia's standard indemnification agreement for executive officers.
- No family relationships with directors or executive officers; no transactions requiring disclosure under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000934549-22-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACTG
- cik: 0000934549
- company_name: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
- filed_at: 2022-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454922000019/0000934549-22-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454922000019/actg-20220425.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000934549-22-000019
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000934549-22-000019.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000934549-22-000019.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kirsten Hoover was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at ACACIA RESEARCH CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On April 25, 2022, the board of directors of Acacia Research Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Ms. Kirsten Hoover as its principal accounting officer (“PAO”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454922000019/0000934549-22-000019-index.htm

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