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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-037055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LIND"
cik: "0001512499"
company_name: "LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-12-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T05:09:01.820657+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lindblad Expeditions appoints Natalya Leahy CEO, Rick Goldberg CFO; founder becomes Co-Chair

## Summary
- Natalya Leahy, former Seabourn President, becomes CEO effective Jan. 1, 2025.
- Rick Goldberg, former Founders Table Restaurant Group CFO, becomes CFO effective Dec. 31, 2024.
- Founder Sven-Olof Lindblad transitions to Founder and Co-Chair of the Board.
- Interim CFO L. Dyson Dryden remains a Board Director.
- Leahy led global team of 4,000+ at Seabourn; Goldberg held CFO roles at Jackson Hewitt and others.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-037055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LIND
- cik: 0001512499
- company_name: LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-12-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512499/000143774924037055/0001437749-24-037055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512499/000143774924037055/lindb20241112_8k.htm

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