---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000945841-23-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POOL"
cik: "0000945841"
company_name: "POOL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T01:14:37.465239+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pool Corp appoints Walker F. Saik as Chief Accounting Officer effective March 1, 2023

## Summary
- Walker F. Saik appointed CAO and principal accounting officer, effective March 1, 2023.
- Saik, 39, joined Pool Corp as Corporate Controller in July 2021; previously Managing Director at EY.
- Melanie Housey Hart (CFO) relinquishes principal accounting officer role she held since 2008.
- No family relationships or material transactions with Saik disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000945841-23-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POOL
- cik: 0000945841
- company_name: POOL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000018/0000945841-23-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000018/pool-20230224.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000945841-23-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Melanie Housey Hart changed role as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at POOL CORP.
  - Action: transitions from
  - Role: Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The designation of principal accounting officer transitions from Melanie Housey Hart, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), who has served as principal accounting officer since 2008 and as CAO from 2008 until her appointment as CFO in 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000018/0000945841-23-000018-index.htm
- Executive change
  Walker F. Saik was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at POOL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: appointed Walker F. Saik as Chief Accounting Officer ("CAO") and designated Mr. Saik as the Company's principal accounting officer, effective March 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000018/0000945841-23-000018-index.htm

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