---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001280058-21-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLKB"
cik: "0001280058"
company_name: "BLACKBAUD INC"
filed_at: "2021-09-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T02:32:37.598850+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blackbaud director Thomas Ertel resigns; D. Roger Nanney appointed to board and audit committee

## Summary
- Thomas R. Ertel will resign as director effective Sept 30, 2021; no disagreement with company.
- D. Roger Nanney appointed to board and audit committee effective Oct 1, 2021.
- Nanney is former Vice Chairman and Senior Partner of Deloitte LLP, retired May 2020.
- Nanney deemed independent; will serve as Class C director until 2022 annual meeting.
- No arrangements or transactions requiring disclosure; compensation per standard non-employee director practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001280058-21-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLKB
- cik: 0001280058
- company_name: BLACKBAUD INC
- filed_at: 2021-09-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280058/000128005821000040/0001280058-21-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280058/000128005821000040/blkb-20210916.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001280058-21-000040
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001280058-21-000040.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001280058-21-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Thomas R. Ertel resigned as Director at BLACKBAUD INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Thomas R. Ertel notified Blackbaud, Inc. (the "Company") that he will resign as a director of the Company effective September 30, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280058/000128005821000040/0001280058-21-000040-index.htm
- Executive change
  D. Roger Nanney was appointed as Director at BLACKBAUD INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Company appointed D. Roger Nanney as a new member of the Board and its Audit Committee, effective October 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280058/000128005821000040/0001280058-21-000040-index.htm

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