---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-001373"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TFIN"
cik: "0001539638"
company_name: "Triumph Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T11:45:20.527074+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Triumph Financial elects Davis Deadman to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board size increased to 11 members; Davis Deadman elected as director effective Jan 23, 2023.
- Deadman served on TBK Bank board since 2014 and as its chief lending officer 2012-2014.
- Deadman previously CEO and President of NexBank (2004-2010) and partner at Highland Capital Management.
- Will serve until 2023 annual meeting and stand for shareholder election; compensated as non-employee director.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-001373
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TFIN
- cik: 0001539638
- company_name: Triumph Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828023001373/0001628280-23-001373-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828023001373/tbk-20230123.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-001373
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-001373.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-001373.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Davis Deadman was elected as Director at Triumph Financial, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board voted to increase the size of its Board to eleven members and to elect Davis Deadman as a director of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828023001373/0001628280-23-001373-index.htm

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