---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-22-057543"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "REFI"
cik: "0001867949"
company_name: "Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-09-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T08:21:51.945691+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CFO Lindsay Menze resigns effective Sept 30; Phillip Silverman named Interim CFO

## Summary
- Lindsay Menze tendered resignation as CFO and Secretary on Sept 16, 2022, effective Sept 30, 2022.
- Resignation is for personal reasons, not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Phillip Silverman, currently Controller, appointed Interim CFO and Secretary effective Sept 30, 2022.
- Silverman, 32, has over ten years of accounting/finance experience, previously at BDO USA LLP.
- Company has commenced a search for a permanent principal financial and/or accounting officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-22-057543
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: REFI
- cik: 0001867949
- company_name: Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-09-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1867949/000121390022057543/0001213900-22-057543-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1867949/000121390022057543/ea166097-8k_chicago.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lindsay Menze resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
  source text: On September 16, 2022, Lindsay Menze tendered her resignation as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. (the “Company”), effective as of the close of business on September 30, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1867949/000121390022057543/0001213900-22-057543-index.htm
- Executive change
  Phillip Silverman was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
  source text: In connection with Ms. Menze’s resignation, on September 20, 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Phillip Silverman, the Company’s Controller, as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company, effective as of the close of business on September 30, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1867949/000121390022057543/0001213900-22-057543-index.htm

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