---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001049521-24-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MRCY"
cik: "0001049521"
company_name: "MERCURY SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2024-02-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T05:14:30.774313+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mercury Systems appoints Douglas Munro as VP and Chief Accounting Officer effective Feb 12

## Summary
- Douglas Munro promoted to VP and CAO effective Feb 12, 2024, reporting to CFO Dave Farnsworth.
- Munro joined Mercury in 2012, most recently as Corporate Controller; holds CPA and MBA.
- Predecessor Michelle McCarthy left for another role outside the company; no disagreement cited.
- Munro received a restricted stock award of $100K vesting over four years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001049521-24-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MRCY
- cik: 0001049521
- company_name: MERCURY SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2024-02-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952124000011/0001049521-24-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952124000011/mrcy-20240207.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049521-24-000011
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049521-24-000011.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001049521-24-000011.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michelle M. McCarthy resigned as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at MERCURY SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 7, 2024, Michelle M. McCarthy, the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer informed the Company that she has accepted another role outside the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952124000011/0001049521-24-000011-index.htm
- Executive change
  Douglas Munro was appointed as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at MERCURY SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 8, 2024, Mercury Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Douglas Munro has been appointed as the Company’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer effective as of February 12, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049521/000104952124000011/0001049521-24-000011-index.htm

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