---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001462120-25-000074"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "LOB"
cik: "0001462120"
company_name: "Live Oak Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:23:03.970428+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Live Oak Bancshares appoints Jeffrey W. Lunsford to board of directors

## Summary
- Appointed Jeffrey W. Lunsford to board of Live Oak Bancshares and Live Oak Bank, effective August 12, 2025.
- Lunsford is Chairman & CEO of Tealium, co-founder & Chairman of DefenseStorm, a cybersecurity firm providing services to Live Oak.
- Related party disclosure: Live Oak paid DefenseStorm $469K in 2024 and $485K in 2025 for IT/cybersecurity solutions.
- Lunsford and family own 8.83% of DefenseStorm; Live Oak Ventures owns 4.49%; other insiders own 3.96%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001462120-25-000074
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: LOB
- cik: 0001462120
- company_name: Live Oak Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462120/000146212025000074/0001462120-25-000074-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462120/000146212025000074/lob-20250812.htm

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