---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001653558-21-000118"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRTH"
cik: "0001653558"
company_name: "Priority Technology Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-09-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T00:43:24.614830+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Priority Technology appoints Rajiv Kumar as CAO, replaces Pamela Tefft

## Summary
- Rajiv Kumar appointed Senior VP & Chief Accounting Officer effective Sept 27, 2021.
- Kumar previously served as Director, Advisory and Technical Accounting at McKesson.
- Pamela Tefft transitions to Senior Vice President of Finance from CAO role.
- Kumar held manager and senior manager roles at Ernst & Young from 2011 to 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001653558-21-000118
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRTH
- cik: 0001653558
- company_name: Priority Technology Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-09-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355821000118/0001653558-21-000118-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355821000118/prth-20210927.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001653558-21-000118
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001653558-21-000118.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001653558-21-000118.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pamela Tefft changed role as Senior Vice President of Finance at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: Senior Vice President of Finance
  source text: Mr. Kumar replaces Pamela Tefft, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Ms. Tefft will assume the role of Senior Vice President of Finance Senior Vice President
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355821000118/0001653558-21-000118-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rajiv Kumar was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective September 27, 2021, Rajiv Kumar has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Priority Technology Holdings, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355821000118/0001653558-21-000118-index.htm

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