---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-144132"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGS"
cik: "0000716643"
company_name: "REGIS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T00:29:03.428373+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Matthew Doctor resigns effective June 30; Jim Lain interim CEO; Q4 SSS Supercuts +3.0%, consol +1.3%

## Summary
- CEO Matthew Doctor resigns effective June 30, 2025; remains part-time through Aug 31 at 50% base salary.
- Board appoints Jim Lain as Interim CEO effective July 1; base salary $550k, target incentive 100% of base, plus $100k interim bonus.
- Board forms Succession Planning Committee and engages search firm for permanent CEO; internal & external candidates considered.
- Preliminary Q4 SSS: Supercuts +3.0%, Regis consolidated +1.3% for first two months; expenses inline with Q3.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-144132
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGS
- cik: 0000716643
- company_name: REGIS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716643/000119312525144132/0001193125-25-144132-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716643/000119312525144132/d93839d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-144132
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-144132.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-144132.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew Doctor resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer at REGIS CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On June 20, 2025, Matthew Doctor, the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Regis Corporation (the “Company”) notified the Board that he would resign his positions, effective June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716643/000119312525144132/0001193125-25-144132-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jim Lain was appointed as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer at REGIS CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board appointed Jim Lain, the Company’s Executive Vice President, Brand Operations - Supercuts and Cost Cutters, to serve as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716643/000119312525144132/0001193125-25-144132-index.htm

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