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Issuer:     TOP Financial Group Ltd (TOP)
CIK:        0001848275
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-09T20:30:14+00:00
Accession:  0001213900-26-108497
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

TOP Financial adds two directors: Dean Huge (independent, $50K/yr) and Yuli Yan (executive, $60K/yr Project Manager)
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- Board expanded from five to seven directors on Oct 8, 2026; Dean Huge, 70, named independent director and member of Audit, Compensation and Nominating/Governance committees.
- Huge's annual fee is US$50,000 paid quarterly; appointment letter dated Oct 5, 2026, terminable by either party on two months' written notice.
- Yuli Yan, age 40, appointed executive director and Project Manager of TOP AI Inc. (Texas subsidiary) with a one-year term starting Oct 8, 2026, renewable unless three months' notice given.
- Yan gets US$60,000 annual base salary, share-incentive and benefits eligibility; no extra board pay; one-year post-employment non-compete and non-solicit covenants.
- Huge was CEO of Innovation Beverage Group (Nasdaq: IBG) through its 2024 IPO and CFO of Splash Beverage Group (NYSE: SBEV); Yan has been Director of Business Operations at HexaGaN since 2021.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1848275/000121390026108497/0001213900-26-108497-index.htm
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