---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-020487"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LIVE"
cik: "0001045742"
company_name: "LIVE VENTURES Inc"
filed_at: "2022-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T22:21:04.267734+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Live Ventures appoints Wayne Ipsen as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

## Summary
- Ipsen to receive annual base salary of $250,000 and be eligible for bonus up to 40% of base salary.
- Initial one-year term with automatic renewal; 90-day notice for termination without cause.
- Ipsen previously served as VP, General Counsel and Secretary at US Ecology, Inc. for 18 years.
- Employment includes potential conflict-of-interest services to subsidiaries including JanOne Inc.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-020487
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LIVE
- cik: 0001045742
- company_name: LIVE VENTURES Inc
- filed_at: 2022-10-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017022020487/0000950170-22-020487-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017022020487/live-20221024.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-020487
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-020487.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-020487.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Wayne Ipsen was appointed as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at LIVE VENTURES Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
  source text: Effective October 24, 2022, Wayne Ipsen, age 53, became Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Live Ventures Incorporated (the “Company”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000095017022020487/0000950170-22-020487-index.htm

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