---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001653558-25-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRTH"
cik: "0001653558"
company_name: "Priority Technology Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T02:03:09.272265+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Priority Tech co-founder John V. Priore to retire from board Apr 1; Clayton Main appointed

## Summary
- John V. Priore to resign from board effective April 1, 2025; resignation not due to any disagreement with the Company.
- Clayton Main appointed to board effective April 1, 2025; will serve on audit, compensation, and nominating committees.
- Main has over 20 years in leveraged financing and structured equity; most recently partner at Bregal Sagemount, previously Goldman Sachs.
- Main to receive non-employee director compensation: $60,000 cash plus RSUs with grant date fair value of ~$100,000 on April 2, 2025.
- Chairman/CEO Tom Priore says Main's experience will help optimize capital structure and pursue growth in enterprise payment verticals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001653558-25-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRTH
- cik: 0001653558
- company_name: Priority Technology Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355825000029/0001653558-25-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355825000029/prth-20250227.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Clayton Main was appointed as Director at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: The Board appointed Clayton Main as a director of the Company to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Priore’s resignation to be effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355825000029/0001653558-25-000029-index.htm
- Executive change
  John V. Priore resigned as Director at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 26, 2025, John V. Priore provided to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) notification of his resignation from the Board of Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653558/000165355825000029/0001653558-25-000029-index.htm

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