---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-025551"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPRT"
cik: "0000900075"
company_name: "COPART INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T07:22:41.450154+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Copart appoints Gavin Renfrew as interim Principal Financial Officer during CFO search

## Summary
- Gavin Renfrew appointed interim CFO and principal accounting officer effective Sept 23, 2022, during search for permanent CFO.
- Renfrew, 47, served as VP of Global Accounting since Jan 2021; previously Director of Finance for Europe/Middle East.
- Board is conducting a search for permanent CFO; Renfrew to serve until successor is elected or he resigns.
- Renfrew is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of ICAEW; previously at KPMG and Pitney Bowes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-025551
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPRT
- cik: 0000900075
- company_name: COPART INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900075/000162828022025551/0001628280-22-025551-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900075/000162828022025551/cprt-20220923.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-025551
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-025551.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-025551.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gavin Renfrew was appointed as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at COPART INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On September 23, 2022, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Copart, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Gavin Renfrew, the Company's Vice President of Global Accounting, as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer on an interim basis during the pendency of the Company's search for a new Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/900075/000162828022025551/0001628280-22-025551-index.htm

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