---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001084991-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NGS"
cik: "0001084991"
company_name: "NATURAL GAS SERVICES GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T15:31:38.197327+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Natural Gas Services Group names James D. Faircloth Interim CFO as Micah Foster departs

## Summary
- CFO Micah C. Foster departing Feb 28, 2023; James D. Faircloth appointed Interim CFO effective that date.
- Faircloth, 73, has 25+ years public accounting audit experience and 25+ years as CFO/CEO at public/private entities.
- Interim CFO compensation set at $100 per hour; employment at-will; start date Feb 13, 2023.
- Faircloth was audit partner at Johnson, Miller & Co. and audit principal at Whitley Penn, retired 2021.
- Holds BBA in Accounting from Hardin-Simmons, MBA from UT Austin, CPA since 1974.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001084991-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NGS
- cik: 0001084991
- company_name: NATURAL GAS SERVICES GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084991/000108499123000012/0001084991-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084991/000108499123000012/ngs-20230208.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  James D. Faircloth was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at NATURAL GAS SERVICES GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Company entered into a Letter Agreement with James D. Faircloth pursuant to which he will be employed as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer upon Mr. Foster’s departure.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084991/000108499123000012/0001084991-23-000012-index.htm
- Executive change
  Micah C. Foster departed as Chief Financial Officer at NATURAL GAS SERVICES GROUP INC.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: In connection with the impending departure on February 28, 2023, of Micah C. Foster, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084991/000108499123000012/0001084991-23-000012-index.htm

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