---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-069195"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVAH"
cik: "0001832332"
company_name: "Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T15:04:04.206289+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aveanna appoints Matt Buckhalter as permanent CFO effective Jan 1, 2024

## Summary
- Buckhalter, previously interim CFO since July 2023, named CFO and Principal Financial Officer.
- Base salary set at $425,000; annual bonus target of 75% of base; continues equity incentive program.
- Buckhalter joined Aveanna in 2016, served as SVP of Finance and led Investor Relations.
- CEO Jeff Shaner and Chairman Rod Windley cited confidence in Buckhalter's financial leadership.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-069195
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVAH
- cik: 0001832332
- company_name: Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832332/000095017023069195/0000950170-23-069195-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832332/000095017023069195/avah-20231211.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew Buckhalter was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer at Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer
  source text: On December 11, 2023, the Company's board of directors (the "Board") appointed Matthew Buckhalter, the Company's current Interim Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer to Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832332/000095017023069195/0000950170-23-069195-index.htm

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