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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-033752"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001799332"
company_name: "GAN Ltd"
filed_at: "2023-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T08:47:56.104009+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GAN CEO Dermot Smurfit resigns; Chairman Seamus McGill named interim CEO

## Summary
- CEO Dermot Smurfit resigned Sept 25, 2023; company evaluating a consulting arrangement with him.
- Chairman Seamus McGill appointed Interim CEO effective Sept 26, with base salary of $500,000.
- Strategic process evaluating non-binding indications of interest continues; no definitive agreements yet.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-033752
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001799332
- company_name: GAN Ltd
- filed_at: 2023-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1799332/000149315223033752/0001493152-23-033752-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1799332/000149315223033752/form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-033752
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-033752.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Seamus McGill was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer at GAN Ltd.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective September 26, 2023, the Company has appointed Seamus McGill, its current Chairman of the Board, to Interim Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1799332/000149315223033752/0001493152-23-033752-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dermot Smurfit resigned as Chief Executive Officer at GAN Ltd.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On September 25, 2023, GAN Limited (the “Company” ) accepted the resignation of Dermot Smurfit, as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the Company and its operating subsidiaries.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1799332/000149315223033752/0001493152-23-033752-index.htm

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