---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001731122-24-001383"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KAVL"
cik: "0001762239"
company_name: "Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T05:15:41.858464+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kaival Brands appoints interim CEO after CEO Nirajkumar Patel's death

## Summary
- CEO Nirajkumar Patel died unexpectedly on September 7, 2024.
- Mark Thoenes appointed interim CEO effective September 12, 2024.
- Thoenes, 71, previously served as interim CFO (2021-2023) and director since August 2024.
- No family relationships or related-party transactions with Thoenes disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001731122-24-001383
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KAVL
- cik: 0001762239
- company_name: Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1762239/000173112224001383/0001731122-24-001383-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1762239/000173112224001383/e5933_8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001731122-24-001383.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nirajkumar Patel departed as Chief Executive Officer at Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc..
  - Action: passed away
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Nirajkumar Patel who unexpectedly passed away on September 7, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1762239/000173112224001383/0001731122-24-001383-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mark Thoenes was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: appointed Mark Thoenes as interim chief executive officer of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1762239/000173112224001383/0001731122-24-001383-index.htm

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