---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-019927"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HLLY"
cik: "0001822928"
company_name: "Holley Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T01:04:10.640670+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Holley CFO Dominic Bardos resigns; VP Stephen Trussell named interim CFO

## Summary
- CFO Dominic Bardos resigns effective Sept 30, 2022, to pursue another opportunity.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with company's strategy, operations, or policies.
- Company retains Crist|Kolder Associates to search for permanent CFO.
- VP of Finance Stephen Trussell appointed interim CFO; annual salary increased to $346,000.
- Trussell joined Holley in 2003, over 30 years of experience, previously senior manager at KPMG.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-019927
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HLLY
- cik: 0001822928
- company_name: Holley Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822928/000143774922019927/0001437749-22-019927-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822928/000143774922019927/hlly20220810_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen Trussell was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at Holley Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Stephen Trussell, the Company’s current Vice President of Finance, will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer, effective upon Mr. Bardos’s departure.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822928/000143774922019927/0001437749-22-019927-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dominic Bardos resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Holley Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 11, 2022, Holley Inc. (the “Company”) announced that the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Dominic Bardos, has resigned, effective September 30, 2022
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822928/000143774922019927/0001437749-22-019927-index.htm

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