---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-277972"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTO"
cik: "0000766829"
company_name: "H2O AMERICA"
filed_at: "2022-11-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T07:25:04.872128+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SJW Group Chief Accounting Officer James P. Lynch Departs; CFO Andrew Walters Named Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Chief Accounting Officer James P. Lynch departed effective November 3, 2022.
- CFO Andrew F. Walters assumes principal accounting officer duties in addition to CFO role.
- Walters has served as CFO and Treasurer since January 2022; previously Chief Corporate Development Officer.
- Walters brings background from JP Morgan Asset Management and Citigroup investment banking.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-277972
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTO
- cik: 0000766829
- company_name: H2O AMERICA
- filed_at: 2022-11-04T23:59:59+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/766829/000119312522277972/0001193125-22-277972-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766829/000119312522277972/d105094d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-277972
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-277972.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-277972.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Andrew F. Walters was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at H2O AMERICA.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Andrew F. Walters, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will serve as the principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766829/000119312522277972/0001193125-22-277972-index.htm
- Executive change
  James P. Lynch departed as Chief Accounting Officer at H2O AMERICA.
  - Action: no longer employed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective as of November 3, 2022, James P. Lynch, who was the Chief Accounting Officer of SJW Group (the “Company”), is no longer employed by the Company nor of its subsidiaries.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766829/000119312522277972/0001193125-22-277972-index.htm

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