---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-003433"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNRC"
cik: "0001474735"
company_name: "GENERAC HOLDINGS INC."
filed_at: "2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T07:56:19.424025+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Russell Minick, CMO, to retire; will remain until May 1, 2022

## Summary
- Russell Minick, Chief Marketing Officer, announced retirement effective no later than May 1, 2022.
- He will stay with the company until a successor is appointed or transition completed.
- Minick has been with Generac since 2011, holding positions of increasing responsibility.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-003433
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNRC
- cik: 0001474735
- company_name: GENERAC HOLDINGS INC.
- filed_at: 2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1474735/000143774922003433/0001437749-22-003433-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1474735/000143774922003433/gnrc20220215_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-003433
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-003433.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-003433.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Russell Minick departed as Chief Marketing Officer at GENERAC HOLDINGS INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Marketing Officer
  source text: On February 11, 2022, Russell Minick, Chief Marketing Officer of Generac Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), gave notice of his intention to retire from the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1474735/000143774922003433/0001437749-22-003433-index.htm

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