---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-21-001976"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LIVE"
cik: "0001045742"
company_name: "LIVE VENTURES Inc"
filed_at: "2021-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T23:43:32.852979+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Live Ventures names David Verret CAO; CFO Virland Johnson departs effective Oct 1, 2021

## Summary
- David Verret appointed Chief Accounting Officer effective Sept 29, 2021; base salary $250K, eligible for bonus up to 40% of salary.
- CFO Virland Johnson and company mutually agreed to end employment relationships effective Oct 1, 2021.
- Verret previously CAO at Brinks Home Security; 13 years at KPMG audit practice.
- Employment agreement provides three-year renewal term starting Feb 1, 2022; one-year severance if terminated without cause after Initial Term.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-21-001976
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LIVE
- cik: 0001045742
- company_name: LIVE VENTURES Inc
- filed_at: 2021-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017021001976/0000950170-21-001976-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017021001976/live-20210929.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-21-001976
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-21-001976.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-21-001976.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Verret was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at LIVE VENTURES Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective September 29, 2021, David Verret became Chief Accounting Officer for Live Ventures Incorporated (the “Company”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017021001976/0000950170-21-001976-index.htm
- Executive change
  Virland Johnson departed as Chief Financial Officer at LIVE VENTURES Inc.
  - Action: mutually agreed to cease
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Company and Virland Johnson, our Chief Financial Officer, have mutually agreed that, effective as of October 1, 2021, we would cease all of our employment-based relationships.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017021001976/0000950170-21-001976-index.htm

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