---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001448893-21-000105"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ESNT"
cik: "0001448893"
company_name: "Essent Group Ltd."
filed_at: "2021-09-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T02:55:30.526763+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Jane Chwick to resign Dec 31, 2021; Chief Business Officer Jeff Cashmer leaves Oct 8

## Summary
- Jane Chwick, chair of technology/innovation/operations committee, resigns effective Dec 31, 2021; no disagreement with management.
- Jeff R. Cashmer, SVP and Chief Business Officer of Essent Guaranty, will leave Oct 8, 2021 to pursue other opportunities.
- Cashmer enters separation agreement receiving severance and equity vesting consistent with termination without cause.
- Cashmer subject to 18-month restrictive covenants per his employment agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001448893-21-000105
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ESNT
- cik: 0001448893
- company_name: Essent Group Ltd.
- filed_at: 2021-09-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448893/000144889321000105/0001448893-21-000105-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448893/000144889321000105/esnt-20210917.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001448893-21-000105
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001448893-21-000105.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001448893-21-000105.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeff R. Cashmer resigned as Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Essent Group Ltd..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
  source text: Effective as of October 8, 2021, Jeff R. Cashmer, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Essent Guaranty, Inc. (“Guaranty”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Essent Group Ltd. (the “Company”), will be leaving Guaranty to pursue other opportunities and as of such date will no longer serve as an officer and employee, and will resign as an officer, of Guaranty.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448893/000144889321000105/0001448893-21-000105-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jane Chwick resigned as Director at Essent Group Ltd..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 13, 2021, Jane Chwick confirmed to the Company that she will resign from the Company’s board of directors effective December 31, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448893/000144889321000105/0001448893-21-000105-index.htm

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