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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001050797-25-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COLM"
cik: "0001050797"
company_name: "COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO"
filed_at: "2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T09:45:50.064916+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chief Digital Information Officer Skip Potter leaves Columbia Sportswear; CFO takes over interim

## Summary
- Skip Potter, EVP and Chief Digital Information Officer, departed Columbia Sportswear on January 6, 2025.
- Company will initiate a search for Potter's replacement.
- EVP and CFO Jim Swanson will oversee the digital technology department on an interim basis.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001050797-25-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COLM
- cik: 0001050797
- company_name: COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO
- filed_at: 2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050797/000105079725000002/0001050797-25-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050797/000105079725000002/colm-20250106.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050797-25-000002
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050797-25-000002.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050797-25-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Skip Potter departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Information Officer at COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Information Officer
  source text: On January 6, 2025, Skip Potter, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Information Officer of Columbia Sportswear Company (the “Company”), departed the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050797/000105079725000002/0001050797-25-000002-index.htm

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