---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001016281-22-000107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CSV"
cik: "0001016281"
company_name: "CARRIAGE SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2022-10-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T05:48:34.187658+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carriage Services CFO Ben Brink to resign effective Jan 2, 2023; search underway

## Summary
- CFO Ben Brink resigns effective Jan 2, 2023; will serve as consultant through June 30, 2023.
- Separation agreement includes one-time payment, 24-month salary continuation, and 30,000 CSV shares (value ~$965k).
- Executive employment agreements extended: Quezada (to 2026, $600k salary), Metzger (to 2025, $500k), Phillips (to 2025, $360k).
- Brink's departure voluntary, not due to any disagreement; company has begun search for permanent CFO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001016281-22-000107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSV
- cik: 0001016281
- company_name: CARRIAGE SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2022-10-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628122000107/0001016281-22-000107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628122000107/csv-20221003.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-22-000107
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-22-000107.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-22-000107.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carl Benjamin Brink resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at CARRIAGE SERVICES INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
  source text: On September 27, 2022, Carl Benjamin Brink informed Carriage Services, Inc. (the “Company”) that he plans to resign from his position as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer) of the Company effective January 2, 2023 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628122000107/0001016281-22-000107-index.htm

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