{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001437749-26-031894","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"IPDN","cik":"0001546296","company_name":"Professional Diversity Network, Inc.","filed_at":"2026-10-02T20:30:40+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-10-02T20:32:00.389477+00:00","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:39:12.532111+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.5,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.5,"confidence":"high","headline":"Professional Diversity Network names CFO Yiran Gu as CEO, succeeding Xun Wu","bullets":["Board appointed Yiran Gu, 37, as CEO effective Oct 2, 2026; she will keep the CFO title until a successor is named. Gu has been CFO since August 2025.","Xun Wu's CEO term expired and the board did not renew it effective July 22, 2026; the filing states no disagreement with the company over operations, policies or practices.","Employment agreement runs 12 months from Oct 2, 2026 with aggregate base compensation of $300,000/year covering both CEO and CFO roles, payable in cash, common stock, or a mix.","Change-of-control terms: lump-sum equal to 12 months' base salary, pro-rated target bonus, and immediate vesting of 100% of unvested equity awards.","Gu was a director and chief strategy officer at Koala Malta Limited from July 2021 to August 2025; the new agreement replaces her August 8, 2025 employment deal."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-031894","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-031894.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-031894.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-031894.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1546296/000143774926031894/0001437749-26-031894-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1546296/000143774926031894/ipdn20261002_8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:39:12.532111+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}