---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-21-043958"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMSI"
cik: "0000948708"
company_name: "SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC."
filed_at: "2021-08-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T14:27:39.543618+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smith Micro appoints Michael Fox as Interim VP Finance, to become Interim CFO

## Summary
- Fox appointed Interim VP Finance effective Aug 10, 2021; will become Interim CFO when Tim Huffmyer departs on or about Sept 3, 2021.
- Offer letter provides $250,000 annual base salary and standard benefits; no family relationships or conflicts disclosed.
- Company will continue formal search for a permanent CFO over the next several months.
- Fox has over 25 years of executive finance experience, including CFO roles at private and public companies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-21-043958
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMSI
- cik: 0000948708
- company_name: SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-08-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000156459021043958/0001564590-21-043958-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000156459021043958/smsi-8k_20210812.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-043958.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael K. Fox was appointed as Interim Vice President, Finance at SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Vice President, Finance
  source text: On August 12, 2021, Smith Micro Software, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Michael K. Fox has been appointed as Interim Vice President, Finance of the Company effective as of August 10, 2021 and will become the Interim Chief Financial Officer as of the date when Tim Huffmyer, the Company’s current Chief Financial Officer, vacates that office, which, as previously disclosed, is expected to be on or about September 3, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000156459021043958/0001564590-21-043958-index.htm
- Executive change
  Tim Huffmyer departed as Chief Financial Officer at SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE, INC..
  - Action: vacates
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Tim Huffmyer, the Company’s current Chief Financial Officer, vacates that office, which, as previously disclosed, is expected to be on or about September 3, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/948708/000156459021043958/0001564590-21-043958-index.htm

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