---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000934549-25-000034"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACTG"
cik: "0000934549"
company_name: "ACACIA RESEARCH CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T23:13:28.072107+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acacia Research appoints Michael Zambito as CFO, effective June 24, 2025

## Summary
- Annual salary $450,000; bonus target $230,000; equity target $395,000 annualized.
- Kirsten Hoover transitions from interim CFO to Controller; monthly stipend of $11,667 ends.
- Zambito brings 30 years of experience, most recently 17 years as partner at EY-Parthenon.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000934549-25-000034
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACTG
- cik: 0000934549
- company_name: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454925000034/0000934549-25-000034-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454925000034/actg-20250624.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000934549-25-000034
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000934549-25-000034.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000934549-25-000034.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kirsten Hoover changed role as Controller at ACACIA RESEARCH CORP.
  - Role: Controller
  source text: Kirsten Hoover, who has served as Acacia’s Interim Chief Financial Officer and Controller as well as the Company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, will continue to serve as the Company’s Controller and will remain a key member of Acacia’s senior management team.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454925000034/0000934549-25-000034-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael Zambito was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at ACACIA RESEARCH CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On June 24, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Acacia Research Corporation (“Acacia” or the “Company”) appointed Michael Zambito as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934549/000093454925000034/0000934549-25-000034-index.htm

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