---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001421517-24-000057"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ERII"
cik: "0001421517"
company_name: "Energy Recovery, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T21:54:40.871030+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Energy Recovery CFO Joshua Ballard to resign June 30, 2024; search underway

## Summary
- Joshua Ballard announced resignation as CFO effective June 30, 2024, citing desire for new challenges.
- Company has engaged executive search firm Korn Ferry to identify next CFO.
- Ballard joined Energy Recovery in 2018 and led finance through consecutive revenue and profit growth.
- Resignation did not result from any disagreement with management or the Board; transition expected to be orderly.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001421517-24-000057
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ERII
- cik: 0001421517
- company_name: Energy Recovery, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421517/000142151724000057/0001421517-24-000057-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421517/000142151724000057/erii-20240221.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001421517-24-000057
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001421517-24-000057.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001421517-24-000057.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joshua Ballard resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Energy Recovery, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On February 21, 2024, Joshua Ballard, Chief Financial Officer of Energy Recovery, Inc., (the “Company”) announced that he intended to resign as Chief Financial Officer effective on June 30, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421517/000142151724000057/0001421517-24-000057-index.htm

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