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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-039305"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001029142"
company_name: "DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T04:18:47.549363+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dynavax appoints CEO Ryan Spencer as Interim CFO during CFO's maternity leave

## Summary
- CFO Kelly MacDonald begins maternity leave April 1, 2024; expected return in early August 2024.
- CEO Ryan Spencer appointed Interim CFO (principal financial officer) effective April 1, 2024.
- No change in Spencer's compensation for assuming additional CFO duties.
- Other officers assume some CFO duties; senior consultant with public company CFO experience hired.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-039305
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001029142
- company_name: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000095017024039305/0000950170-24-039305-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000095017024039305/dvax-20240329.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-039305
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-039305.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-039305.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ryan Spencer was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 29, 2024, Dynavax Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Ryan Spencer to serve in a temporary capacity as Interim Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer) of the Company while Kelly MacDonald is on maternity leave, commencing April 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000095017024039305/0000950170-24-039305-index.htm

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