secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ISHARES GOLD TRUST (IAU)
CIK:        0001278680
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-26-010475
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

iShares Gold Trust appoints Jay Jacobs as Director, President and CEO; Shannon Ghia resigns
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- On March 27, 2026, Jay Jacobs appointed to Board of Directors and as President/CEO of iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC.
- Jacobs is a BlackRock Managing Director and U.S. Head of Equity ETFs since April 7, 2025.
- Shannon Ghia resigned as Director and President/CEO on same date; no dispute or disagreement cited.
- Jacobs previously founded research and strategy team at Global X ETFs from 2013 to 2022.
- Jacobs holds BA from Emory, MBA from Columbia Business School, and is a CFA charterholder.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278680/000143774926010475/0001437749-26-010475-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278680/000143774926010475/iau20260328_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-010475

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