---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-024489"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IPDN"
cik: "0001546296"
company_name: "Professional Diversity Network, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:26:27.136228+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Professional Diversity Network auditor Sassetti resigns; SR CPA engaged

## Summary
- Sassetti resigned July 24, 2025; resignation effective July 24, 2025; received letter July 30.
- Resignation due to scheduling conflict and resources; no disagreements or reportable events.
- Prior Sassetti reports contained going-concern explanatory paragraph for recurring losses and capital deficiency.
- Company engaged SR CPA & Co. as new independent auditor effective July 31, 2025, approved by Audit Committee.
- No consultations with SR CPA prior to engagement on any accounting matters or disagreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-024489
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IPDN
- cik: 0001546296
- company_name: Professional Diversity Network, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1546296/000143774925024489/0001437749-25-024489-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1546296/000143774925024489/ipdn20250802_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Professional Diversity Network, Inc. engaged SR CPA & Co. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: SR CPA & Co.
  source text: The Company has engaged SR CPA & Co. (“SR CPA”), a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board registered firm , as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company, effective on July 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1546296/000143774925024489/0001437749-25-024489-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Sassetti LLC resigned as auditor of Professional Diversity Network, Inc..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Sassetti LLC
  source text: On July 30, 2025, Professional Diversity Network, Inc. (the “Company”) received a resignation letter from Sassetti LLC (“Sassetti”), the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company, stating that its resignation from its role as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm on July 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1546296/000143774925024489/0001437749-25-024489-index.htm

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