---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001065696-24-000076"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKQ"
cik: "0001065696"
company_name: "LKQ CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T15:10:38.389293+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# LKQ appoints Todd Cunningham as VP Finance & Controller, succeeding Michael Clark

## Summary
- Todd Cunningham, currently VP Finance and Assistant Controller, will become VP Finance and Controller and principal accounting officer effective May 1, 2024.
- Michael Clark, current VP Finance and Controller and principal accounting officer, transitions to Senior VP, Policy and Administration effective May 1.
- Cunningham, 46, joined LKQ in 2015; previously served as VP Corporate Audit and Finance Director at Euro Car Parts.
- Cunningham is a CPA (inactive) and began his career at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001065696-24-000076
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKQ
- cik: 0001065696
- company_name: LKQ CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569624000076/0001065696-24-000076-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569624000076/lkq-20240418.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065696-24-000076
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065696-24-000076.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065696-24-000076.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Clark changed role as Senior Vice President, Policy and Administration at LKQ CORP.
  - Action: will transition
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Policy and Administration
  source text: Michael Clark, currently the Company’s Vice President, Finance and Controller and the Company’s principal accounting officer, will transition to a role as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Policy and Administration effective May 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569624000076/0001065696-24-000076-index.htm
- Executive change
  Todd Cunningham changed role as Vice President, Finance and Controller and principal accounting officer at LKQ CORP.
  - Action: will become
  - Role: Vice President, Finance and Controller and principal accounting officer
  source text: On April 18, 2024, LKQ Corporation (the “Company”) announced that Todd Cunningham, currently the Company’s Vice President, Finance and Assistant Controller, will become the Company’s Vice President, Finance and Controller and the Company’s principal accounting officer effective May 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569624000076/0001065696-24-000076-index.htm

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