---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000945841-22-000114"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POOL"
cik: "0000945841"
company_name: "POOL CORP"
filed_at: "2022-10-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T03:59:00.600545+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pool Corporation appoints James D. Hope to Board; Board expands to 11 members

## Summary
- Board appointed James D. Hope as director effective October 10, 2022, until the 2023 annual meeting.
- Board size increased from ten to eleven members with Hope's appointment.
- Hope is CFO of Performance Food Group and has 35+ years of executive experience.
- Hope will serve on the Board's Audit Committee and receive pro-rated annual cash retainer.
- No family relationships or material transactions between Hope and the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000945841-22-000114
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POOL
- cik: 0000945841
- company_name: POOL CORP
- filed_at: 2022-10-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584122000114/0000945841-22-000114-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584122000114/pool-20221013.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000945841-22-000114
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000945841-22-000114.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000945841-22-000114.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James D. Hope was appointed as Director at POOL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On October 10, 2022, the Board of Directors of Pool Corporation (the Board) appointed James “ Jim ” D. Hope to serve as a director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584122000114/0000945841-22-000114-index.htm

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