---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-196580"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JEF"
cik: "0000096223"
company_name: "Jefferies Financial Group Inc."
filed_at: "2022-07-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T12:57:52.292276+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jefferies CFO Gendron and CAO Dalton to depart May 2023; Larson to become CFO

## Summary
- CFO Teri Gendron to leave May 2023; will receive $1.5M year-end and $2M final payment per separation agreement.
- Controller & CAO John Dalton also departing May 2023.
- Matt Larson, Jefferies Group CFO, to become co-CFO then sole CFO after consolidation.
- Press release also announces planned sale of Idaho Timber and corporate consolidation of Jefferies Group LLC into the company.
- No specific terms for sale or consolidation disclosed in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-196580
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JEF
- cik: 0000096223
- company_name: Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-07-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000119312522196580/0001193125-22-196580-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000119312522196580/d346508d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-196580.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-196580.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Dalton departed as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Jefferies Financial Group Inc..
  - Action: will be departing
  - Role: Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: John Dalton, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, will be departing from the Company in May 2023 to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000119312522196580/0001193125-22-196580-index.htm
- Executive change
  Matt Larson was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Jefferies Financial Group Inc..
  - Action: will succeed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Mr. Larson will succeed Ms. Gendron as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000119312522196580/0001193125-22-196580-index.htm
- Executive change
  Teri Gendron departed as Chief Financial Officer at Jefferies Financial Group Inc..
  - Action: will be departing
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Teri Gendron, Chief Financial Officer, and John Dalton, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, will be departing from the Company in May 2023 to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000119312522196580/0001193125-22-196580-index.htm

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