---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001331520-25-000079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOMB"
cik: "0001331520"
company_name: "HOME BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T22:46:18.111278+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tracy M. French to retire from Home BancShares board and Centennial Bank chairman, becomes Senior Advisor

## Summary
- French will not stand for reelection as Home BancShares director and Centennial Bank Chairman; effective April 17, 2025.
- He will serve as Senior Advisor (employee) from Feb 27, 2025 through retirement date Feb 27, 2027.
- French will receive annual salary of $408,000 and benefits for two years; no bonus, deferred bonus, or change-in-control payments.
- Outstanding restricted shares and stock options continue vesting during advisory period; unvested awards forfeited at retirement.
- French agreed to non-compete and non-solicitation covenants for the duration of employment plus 24 months after.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001331520-25-000079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOMB
- cik: 0001331520
- company_name: HOME BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152025000079/0001331520-25-000079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152025000079/homb-20250227.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tracy M. French was appointed as Advisor at HOME BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Advisor
  source text: he will serve as an advisor to senior management of the Company and the Bank in an employee capacity for the next two years effective February 27, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152025000079/0001331520-25-000079-index.htm
- Executive change
  Tracy M. French retired as Chairman of the Board and Director at HOME BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chairman of the Board and Director
  source text: he will not stand for reelection as a director of the Company and as Chairman of the Board and a director of the Bank upon the completion of his current term on the Company’s and the Bank’s boards of directors on April 17, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152025000079/0001331520-25-000079-index.htm

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