---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-016699"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LIND"
cik: "0001512499"
company_name: "LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T00:45:31.239594+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lindblad Expeditions appoints director L. Dyson Dryden as interim CFO effective June 1

## Summary
- Dryden replaces outgoing CFO Felenstein; search for permanent CFO underway.
- Interim CFO compensation: 100,000 stock options (half vested immediately, half upon completion) plus 100,000 RSUs vesting 1/6 per month.
- Tad Smith appointed Audit Committee chair, replacing Dryden in that role.
- Dryden is a current board member; interim role effective June 1, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-016699
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LIND
- cik: 0001512499
- company_name: LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-14T23:59:59+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/1512499/000143774924016699/0001437749-24-016699-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512499/000143774924016699/lindb20240513_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  L. Dyson Dryden was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS HOLDINGS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: announced the appointment of L. Dyson Dryden, a director of the Company, as interim Chief Financial Officer for the Company, effective June 1, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512499/000143774924016699/0001437749-24-016699-index.htm

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