---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001680873-24-000069"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HFFG"
cik: "0001680873"
company_name: "HF Foods Group Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T01:42:47.902498+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HF Foods appoints Felix Lin as permanent CEO effective Jan 1, 2025

## Summary
- Xi (Felix) Lin named permanent CEO, effective Jan 1, 2025; previously interim CEO, COO, President.
- Employment Agreement: base salary $675,000, annual bonus target 125% of base, one-time PSU grant of $1M contingent on stock price.
- Severance: if termination without cause/good reason within 3 years, 36 months base salary; thereafter prorated bonus.
- Additional appointments: Jason White as SVP People & Technology, Paul Guan as VP Distribution Center Operations.
- Lin to be nominated to Board in June 2025 election.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001680873-24-000069
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HFFG
- cik: 0001680873
- company_name: HF Foods Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1680873/000168087324000069/0001680873-24-000069-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1680873/000168087324000069/hffg-20241216.htm

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