---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-000148"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCHX"
cik: "0001224133"
company_name: "MARCHEX INC"
filed_at: "2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T21:16:33.612672+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Marchex CFO Leila Kirske resigns; Co-CEO Arends assumes principal financial officer role

## Summary
- Leila Kirske resigned as CFO effective December 31, 2021 to pursue other opportunities.
- Co-CEO Michael Arends, who served as CFO from May 2003 to April 2021, appointed interim principal financial and accounting officer.
- Search for a permanent CFO successor has commenced; Arends will oversee finance department until replacement is named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-000148
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCHX
- cik: 0001224133
- company_name: MARCHEX INC
- filed_at: 2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224133/000156459022000148/0001564590-22-000148-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224133/000156459022000148/mchx-8k_20211231.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-000148
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-000148.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-000148.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Arends was appointed as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at MARCHEX INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Michael Arends, the Company’s Co-CEO, who previously served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer from May 2003 through April 2021, will serve as the Company’s Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer and oversee the senior members of the Company’s finance department until a successor Chief Financial Officer is named.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224133/000156459022000148/0001564590-22-000148-index.htm
- Executive change
  Leila Kirske resigned as Chief Financial Officer at MARCHEX INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective on December 31, 2021, Leila Kirske resigned as Chief Financial Officer of Marchex, Inc. (the “Company”) to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1224133/000156459022000148/0001564590-22-000148-index.htm

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