---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000947871-22-001013"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "SWKHL"
cik: "0001089907"
company_name: "SWK Holdings Corp"
filed_at: "2022-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T07:37:30.952247+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SWK Holdings appoints Jody Staggs as President and Interim CEO; compensation disclosed

## Summary
- Jody Staggs appointed President effective Sep 1, 2022 and Interim CEO effective Sep 30, 2022.
- Annual base salary of $350,000 for remainder of 2022, effective Sep 1, 2022.
- 2022 annual bonus equal to 35% of the company's executive bonus pool.
- Award of 23,655 restricted shares vesting ratably over four years from Sep 1, 2022.
- Restricted stock grant subject to company's 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and restrictive covenants.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000947871-22-001013
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: SWKHL
- cik: 0001089907
- company_name: SWK Holdings Corp
- filed_at: 2022-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000094787122001013/0000947871-22-001013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000094787122001013/ss1361311_8ka.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000947871-22-001013
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000947871-22-001013.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000947871-22-001013.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jody Staggs was appointed as President and Interim Chief Executive Officer at SWK Holdings Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: on September 1, 2022, the Company appointed Jody Staggs as the Company’s President, effective as of September 1, 2022, and Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective as of September 30, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000094787122001013/0000947871-22-001013-index.htm

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