---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000948708-25-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMSI"
cik: "0000948708"
company_name: "SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T12:34:26.506318+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smith Micro appoints Tim Huffmyer as COO/CFO; replaces James Kempton

## Summary
- Tim Huffmyer appointed COO and CFO, effective June 9, 2025; James Kempton departs June 6, 2025.
- Huffmyer previously served as Smith Micro's CFO (2017-2021) and most recently as CFO of Urgent.ly.
- Compensation: $400k base salary (10% initial reduction), $150k annual bonus target, 125k annual RSU target, plus 50k vested shares.
- Huffmyer returns in newly-created dual role overseeing operations and finance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000948708-25-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMSI
- cik: 0000948708
- company_name: SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000094870825000012/0000948708-25-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000094870825000012/smsi-20250521.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000948708-25-000012
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000948708-25-000012.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000948708-25-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James M. Kempton departed as Chief Financial Officer at SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC..
  - Action: depart
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: In his capacity as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Huffmyer will succeed James M. Kempton, who will depart from the Company on June 6, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000094870825000012/0000948708-25-000012-index.htm
- Executive change
  Timothy C. Huffmyer was appointed as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 27, 2025, Smith Micro Software, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Timothy C. Huffmyer as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective June 9, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000094870825000012/0000948708-25-000012-index.htm

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