---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001158449-24-000205"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAP"
cik: "0001158449"
company_name: "ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC"
filed_at: "2024-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T19:48:24.565354+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Advance Auto Parts loses CAO and interim CFO; search for successor underway

## Summary
- Anthony Iskander (SVP Finance, interim CFO) resigns effective Oct 11, 2024; not due to accounting disagreement.
- Elizabeth Dreyer (SVP Controller and CAO) resigns to retire, effective Oct 5, then advisory through mid-Jan 2025.
- CFO Ryan Grimsland will take over principal accounting officer duties until a permanent CAO is named.
- Company notes Dreyer strengthened internal controls and accounting staff during tenure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001158449-24-000205
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAP
- cik: 0001158449
- company_name: ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC
- filed_at: 2024-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- 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/1158449/000115844924000205/0001158449-24-000205-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158449/000115844924000205/aap-20240930.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001158449-24-000205
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001158449-24-000205.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001158449-24-000205.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Anthony A. Iskander resigned as Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer at ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer
  source text: On September 30, 2024, Anthony A. Iskander, Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer, who served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (the “Company”) from August 18, 2023 to November 26, 2023 and assumed the principal accounting officer responsibilities on an interim basis from October 18, 2023 to November 26, 2023, informed the Company of his intent to resign, effective October 11, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158449/000115844924000205/0001158449-24-000205-index.htm
- Executive change
  Elizabeth E. Dreyer departed as Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC.
  - Action: resigned to retire
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On October 2, 2024, Elizabeth E. Dreyer, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer informed the Company of her intent to resign and begin retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158449/000115844924000205/0001158449-24-000205-index.htm

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