secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     WAFD INC (WAFD)
CIK:        0000936528
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-07-02T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000936528-21-000053
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Washington Federal appoints three new directors; Chairman Kelley to step down in Jan 2022
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- Board expanded from 9 to 12 seats; appointed Sylvia Hampel, Sean Singleton, Shawn Bice effective July 1, 2021.
- Chair Thomas Kelley and Dr. Barbara Smith will not stand for re-election in Jan 2022; Stephen Graham named incoming Chairman.
- New director Shawn Bice is President of Products & Technology at Splunk, former AWS and Microsoft executive.
- Sylvia Hampel is a successful entrepreneur and licensed real estate broker; Sean Singleton founded Oglethorpe Capital LLC.
- All three new directors were affirmatively determined independent under Nasdaq rules.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936528/000093652821000053/0000936528-21-000053-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936528/000093652821000053/wfsl-20210630.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936528-21-000053

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