---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-25-000133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NIXX"
cik: "0001462223"
company_name: "Nixxy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T10:29:09.946466+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nixxy appoints Debra Chen Volpone as CEO; three directors resign, two new directors join board

## Summary
- Debra Chen Volpone appointed CEO effective Jan 1, 2025; salary $350k with target bonus up to 100% of salary.
- Three directors (Wallace D. Ruiz, Deborah Leff, Steve Pemberton) resigned Dec 31, 2024; no disagreement reported.
- Elsa Sung and David Kratochvil appointed to board effective Jan 1, 2025; Sung chairs Audit Committee, receives RSUs and quarterly fees.
- Press release states CEO will lead recapitalization and digital transformation; advancing acquisition of JustGot2HaveIt (previously announced Nov 1, 2024).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-25-000133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NIXX
- cik: 0001462223
- company_name: Nixxy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 3.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/nixx_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-000133
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-000133.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-25-000133.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Elsa Sung was appointed as Director at Nixxy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective, January 1, 2025, the Company appointed Elsa Sung as a member of the Board, and as chairwoman of the Company’s Audit Committee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Yu-san "Debra" Chen Volpone was appointed as Director at Nixxy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective January 1, 2025, Nixxy, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Yu-san “Debra” Chen Volpone as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and as a member of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steve Pemberton resigned as Director at Nixxy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective December 31, 2024, each of Wallace D. Ruiz, Deborah Leff and Steve Pemberton (collectively, the “Resigning Directors”) resigned as members of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Yu-san "Debra" Chen Volpone was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Nixxy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective January 1, 2025, Nixxy, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Yu-san “Debra” Chen Volpone as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and as a member of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Deborah Leff resigned as Director at Nixxy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective December 31, 2024, each of Wallace D. Ruiz, Deborah Leff and Steve Pemberton (collectively, the “Resigning Directors”) resigned as members of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Wallace D. Ruiz resigned as Director at Nixxy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective December 31, 2024, each of Wallace D. Ruiz, Deborah Leff and Steve Pemberton (collectively, the “Resigning Directors”) resigned as members of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462223/000165495425000133/0001654954-25-000133-index.htm

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