---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-020506"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHMI"
cik: "0001571776"
company_name: "Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T10:40:32.269425+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cherry Hill Mortgage appoints Apeksha Patel as interim CFO as Michael Hutchby departs

## Summary
- CFO Michael Hutchby resigns effective June 22, 2025 to pursue other opportunities; no disagreement with company.
- Apeksha Patel appointed interim CFO, Treasurer & Secretary effective June 22; she was Controller since 2019.
- Interim CFO compensation: $240k base until June 22, then $300k through Dec 31, 2025; plus $100k guaranteed bonus in Q1 2026.
- President & CEO Jay Lown thanked Hutchby for 12 years of service and highlighted Patel's experience for a smooth transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-020506
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHMI
- cik: 0001571776
- company_name: Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571776/000114036125020506/0001140361-25-020506-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571776/000114036125020506/ef20049717_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-020506
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-020506.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-020506.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Apeksha Patel was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
  source text: on May 27, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Apeksha Patel as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary effective as of June 22, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571776/000114036125020506/0001140361-25-020506-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael A. Hutchby resigned as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
  source text: Michael A. Hutchby, the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, of Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company that he is resigning as an officer of the Company and that he will no longer be employed by the Company effective as of June 22, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571776/000114036125020506/0001140361-25-020506-index.htm

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