---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001029142-25-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001029142"
company_name: "DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T00:46:59.101518+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dynavax principal accounting officer resigns; CFO to add role

## Summary
- Justin Burgess notified resignation as principal accounting officer, effective ~March 3, 2025.
- CFO Kelly MacDonald to be appointed principal accounting officer prior to March 3, 2025.
- No change in MacDonald's compensation as a result of the appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001029142-25-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001029142
- company_name: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000016/0001029142-25-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000016/dvax-20250203.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001029142-25-000016
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001029142-25-000016.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001029142-25-000016.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Justin Burgess resigned as principal accounting officer at DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Justin Burgess notified Dynavax Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) that he intends to resign from the Company, including his position as the Company’s principal accounting officer, on or about March 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000016/0001029142-25-000016-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kelly MacDonald was appointed as principal accounting officer at DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: The Company intends to appoint Kelly MacDonald, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer, as the Company’s principal accounting officer, prior to March 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000016/0001029142-25-000016-index.htm

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