---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-017661"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "RMCF"
cik: "0001616262"
company_name: "Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T12:45:38.317736+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rocky Mountain Chocolate appoints Chairman Geygan as Interim CEO effective May 16

## Summary
- Starlette B. Johnson resigned as Interim CEO on May 13, 2024; she remains a Board member.
- Chairman Jeffrey R. Geygan appointed Interim CEO effective May 16, 2024.
- Geygan removed from Audit, Risk & Security and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees per Nasdaq rules.
- Board will conduct an executive search for a permanent CEO; no employment agreement with Geygan yet.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-017661
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: RMCF
- cik: 0001616262
- company_name: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774924017661/0001437749-24-017661-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774924017661/rmcfd20240520_8ka.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey R. Geygan was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On May 16, 2024, the Board appointed Jeffrey R. Geygan, Chairman of the Board, as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774924017661/0001437749-24-017661-index.htm
- Executive change
  Starlette B. Johnson resigned as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On May 13, 2024, Starlette B. Johnson, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. (the “Company”) and member of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), resigned from her position as Interim Chief Executive Officer effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616262/000143774924017661/0001437749-24-017661-index.htm

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