---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-21-007009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAFC"
cik: "0001109242"
company_name: "HANMI FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2021-10-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T20:12:38.099105+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hanmi Financial hires Joseph Pangrazio as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Joseph A. Pangrazio appointed Chief Accounting Officer effective October 18, 2021.
- Previously Senior Manager, VP of Accounting Controls and Reporting at Bank of the West (April 2015–July 2021).
- Pangrazio, 62, is a CPA with over 25 years of accounting and finance experience in financial institutions.
- No departure of a prior CAO was disclosed in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-21-007009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAFC
- cik: 0001109242
- company_name: HANMI FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2021-10-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184321007009/0001171843-21-007009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184321007009/f8k_101821.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-21-007009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph A. Pangrazio was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at HANMI FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: hired
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On October 18, 2021, Joseph A. Pangrazio was hired as the Chief Accounting Officer for Hanmi Financial Corporation (the “Company”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Hanmi Bank.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184321007009/0001171843-21-007009-index.htm

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