---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-052854"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SAMG"
cik: "0001549966"
company_name: "Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T17:14:58.681180+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Silvercrest appoints J. Allen Gray to board after Albert Messina's retirement

## Summary
- Director Albert Messina resigned and retired effective April 7, 2025; no dispute with company.
- Board appointed J. Allen Gray (Managing Director, Head of Institutional Business) as Class III director.
- Gray has been at Silvercrest nearly 17 years; institutional business ~30% of discretionary AUM.
- Gray is a Silvercrest Partner and on Executive Committee since 2019; will not serve on board committees.
- CEO Richard Hough cited Gray's strategic insights for growth plans.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-052854
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SAMG
- cik: 0001549966
- company_name: Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549966/000095017025052854/0000950170-25-052854-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549966/000095017025052854/samg-20250407.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-052854
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-052854.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-052854.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  J. Allen Gray was appointed as director at Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On April 7, 2025, the Board appointed J. Allen Gray, Managing Director, Head of Institutional Business of the Company, as a non-independent director to fill the vacancy on the Board as a Class III director effective as of April 7, 2025 .
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549966/000095017025052854/0000950170-25-052854-index.htm
- Executive change
  Albert Messina departed as director at Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc..
  - Action: resigned and retired
  - Role: director
  source text: On April 7, 2025, Albert Messina notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc. (the “Company”) of his intention to resign and retire as a director of the Company, effective as of April 7, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549966/000095017025052854/0000950170-25-052854-index.htm

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