---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001084048-24-000062"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZD"
cik: "0001084048"
company_name: "ZIFF DAVIS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-07-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T16:45:19.482840+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chief Accounting Officer Layth Taki resigns; CFO Bret Richter to serve as interim principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Layth Taki, CAO, resigned effective Aug 16, 2024 to pursue another opportunity.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with auditors or management on accounting principles or internal controls.
- CFO Bret Richter will assume interim principal accounting officer role effective Aug 16 until replacement named.
- Mr. Richter will receive no additional compensation for the interim dual role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001084048-24-000062
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZD
- cik: 0001084048
- company_name: ZIFF DAVIS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-07-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404824000062/0001084048-24-000062-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404824000062/jcom-20240719.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001084048-24-000062.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bret Richter was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at ZIFF DAVIS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective as of August 16, 2024, and until such time as a replacement is named, Bret Richter, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, will assume the role of principal accounting officer on an interim basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404824000062/0001084048-24-000062-index.htm
- Executive change
  Layth Taki resigned as Chief Accounting Officer at ZIFF DAVIS, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On July 19, 2024, Layth Taki, Chief Accounting Officer of Ziff Davis, Inc. (the “Company”), resigned effective as of August 16, 2024 to pursue another opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404824000062/0001084048-24-000062-index.htm

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