---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-22-000134"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROYL"
cik: "0001694617"
company_name: "Royale Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T13:37:53.881456+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Royale Energy CFO Stephen Hosmer resigns; named to board; Lipnick interim CFO

## Summary
- CFO, Secretary & PAO Stephen M. Hosmer voluntarily resigned effective Jan 31, 2022; no disagreement or severance.
- Hosmer appointed as a director to fill a board vacancy effective Feb 1, 2022.
- Controller Ronald Lipnick appointed interim CFO and Principal Accounting Officer.
- Hosmer had been with Royale since 1988; Lipnick has been Controller since 1994.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-22-000134
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROYL
- cik: 0001694617
- company_name: Royale Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1694617/000118518522000134/0001185185-22-000134-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1694617/000118518522000134/royaleinc20220131_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-22-000134.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen M. Hosmer resigned as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer at Royale Energy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 25, 2022, Stephen M. Hosmer, the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Principle Accounting Officer of Royale Energy, Inc. (the “ Company ”), announced his voluntary resignation, effective January 31, 2022, from any and all positions as an employee, officer, manager, director or similar position with the Company and all of its subsidiaries.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1694617/000118518522000134/0001185185-22-000134-index.htm
- Executive change
  Stephen M. Hosmer was appointed as director at Royale Energy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 25, 2022, the board of directors of the Company (the “ Board ”) appointed Stephen M. Hosmer, former Chief Financial Officer of the Company, as a director to fill a vacancy on the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1694617/000118518522000134/0001185185-22-000134-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ronald Lipnick was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at Royale Energy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 25, 2022, the Board appointed Ronald Lipnick, the Company’s Controller, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer on an interim basis until a regular full time replacement for these positions can be found.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1694617/000118518522000134/0001185185-22-000134-index.htm

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