---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001092699-24-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SPSC"
cik: "0001092699"
company_name: "SPS COMMERCE INC"
filed_at: "2024-02-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T06:09:02.772968+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SPS Commerce Executive Chair Archie Black to retire at May 16, 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- Archie Black will not stand for re-election and his director term ends May 16, 2024.
- Black to retire from Executive Chair and as an employee effective May 16, 2024.
- Black will receive retirement benefits under his existing severance and change in control agreement.
- Black had transitioned from CEO to Executive Chair when Chad Collins became CEO in Oct 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001092699-24-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SPSC
- cik: 0001092699
- company_name: SPS COMMERCE INC
- filed_at: 2024-02-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092699/000109269924000015/0001092699-24-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092699/000109269924000015/spsc-20240229.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001092699-24-000015
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001092699-24-000015.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001092699-24-000015.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Archie Black departed as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors at SPS COMMERCE INC.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election and retire
  - Role: Executive Chair of the Board of Directors
  source text: On February 29, 2024, SPS Commerce, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Archie Black, the Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of the Company, will not stand for re-election as a director of the Company at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders to be held on May 16, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092699/000109269924000015/0001092699-24-000015-index.htm

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