---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001020710-22-000089"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DXPE"
cik: "0001020710"
company_name: "DXP ENTERPRISES INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T06:53:35.864674+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chief Accounting Officer Gene Padgett resigns; CFO Kent Yee to serve as principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Gene Padgett resigns as Chief Accounting Officer effective October 10, 2022.
- CFO Kent Yee will serve as principal accounting officer effective October 10 until further notice.
- Yee holds an MBA from Harvard and has executed over $1.5B in M&A transactions.
- No arrangements or reportable transactions exist in connection with Yee's appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001020710-22-000089
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DXPE
- cik: 0001020710
- company_name: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020710/000102071022000089/0001020710-22-000089-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020710/000102071022000089/dxpe-20220927.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001020710-22-000089
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001020710-22-000089.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001020710-22-000089.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gene Padgett resigned as Chief Accounting Officer at DXP ENTERPRISES INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Mr. Gene Padgett, the Chief Accounting Officer of DXP Enterprises, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company of his resignation from his position as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company effective October 10, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020710/000102071022000089/0001020710-22-000089-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kent Yee was appointed as principal accounting officer at DXP ENTERPRISES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Mr. Kent Yee, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Corporate Development will serve as principal accounting officer of the Company effective October 10, 2022 until further notice.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020710/000102071022000089/0001020710-22-000089-index.htm

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