---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-24-008485"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACCS"
cik: "0000843006"
company_name: "ACCESS Newswire Inc."
filed_at: "2024-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T00:20:13.595492+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Issuer Direct appoints Pollard & Staples as independent directors

## Summary
- Wesley Pollard (CPA, CFO of Primeritus) and Joseph Staples (former CMO) joined board effective July 1, 2024.
- Pollard added to Audit and Compensation Committees; Staples named Compensation Committee Chair.
- Each receives $30,000 annual cash plus restricted stock unit award valued at $30,000 vesting by June 2025.
- Board now comprises four members: Rein, Pollard, Staples, and CEO Balbirnie (Chair).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-24-008485
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACCS
- cik: 0000843006
- company_name: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495424008485/0001654954-24-008485-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495424008485/isdr_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-008485
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-008485.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Wesley T. Pollard was appointed as Director at ACCESS Newswire Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective July 1, 2024, Wesley T. Pollard was appointed to the board of directors (the “Board”) of Issuer Direct Corporation (the “Company”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495424008485/0001654954-24-008485-index.htm
- Executive change
  Joseph A. Staples was appointed as Director at ACCESS Newswire Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective July 1, 2024, Joseph A. Staples was appointed to the Board of the Company to serve for a term expiring at the earlier of the Company’s next annual meeting of stockholders or his resignation or appointment of a duly elected successor.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495424008485/0001654954-24-008485-index.htm

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