---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-085309"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALRS"
cik: "0000903419"
company_name: "ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T23:29:41.797048+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alerus Financial CAO Jerrod Hanson resigns; Kari Koob appointed as Director of Accounting

## Summary
- Jerrod Hanson resigns as Chief Accounting Officer and SVP effective August 18, 2023; departure unrelated to any accounting disagreement.
- Kari Koob, former FP&A Director, appointed Director of Accounting and Principal Accounting Officer effective same date.
- Koob, age 39, CPA, previously worked at RSM US LLP from 2008, last role as Senior Manager.
- Koob's compensation package includes base salary, short/long-term incentive bonuses, and benefits consistent with senior officers.
- No family relationships or related-party transactions between Koob and any director or executive officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-085309
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALRS
- cik: 0000903419
- company_name: ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000110465923085309/0001104659-23-085309-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000110465923085309/tm2322298d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-085309.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jerrod K. Hanson resigned as Chief Accounting Officer at ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Jerrod K. Hanson notified Alerus Financial Corporation (the “Company”) of his intention to resign from his positions as Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of the Company and from all of his positions with the Company’s subsidiary bank, Alerus Financial, National Association (the “Bank”), effective August 18, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000110465923085309/0001104659-23-085309-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kari Koob was appointed as Director of Accounting and Principal Accounting Officer at ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director of Accounting and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Kari Koob will become the new Director of Accounting and Principal Accounting Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000110465923085309/0001104659-23-085309-index.htm

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