---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-024047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MKTW"
cik: "0001805651"
company_name: "MARKETWISE, INC."
filed_at: "2022-08-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T18:50:28.344366+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CFO Dale Lynch resigns; Corporate Controller named Acting CFO

## Summary
- Dale Lynch voluntarily resigns as CFO effective Sept 16, 2022 to pursue other opportunity; no disagreement with company.
- James A. McGinness III, Corporate Controller, appointed Acting CFO as of Sept 16; potential special compensatory grants to be determined.
- McGinness has CPA, public company background; served as Corporate Controller since Sept 2019 and previously at GSE Systems, Exelon, McCormick.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-024047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MKTW
- cik: 0001805651
- company_name: MARKETWISE, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-08-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828022024047/0001628280-22-024047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828022024047/mktw-20220830.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-024047.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dale Lynch resigned as Chief Financial Officer at MARKETWISE, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 30, 2022, Dale Lynch, the Chief Financial Officer of MarketWise, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), informed the Company of his decision to voluntarily resign from his position to pursue another professional opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828022024047/0001628280-22-024047-index.htm
- Executive change
  James A. McGinness III was appointed as Acting Chief Financial Officer at MARKETWISE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Acting Chief Financial Officer
  source text: James A. McGinness III, the Company’s current Corporate Controller, will serve as Acting Chief Financial Officer, effective as of September 16, 2022, under his existing compensation arrangements.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828022024047/0001628280-22-024047-index.htm

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