---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001803914-23-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLBY"
cik: "0001803914"
company_name: "Playboy, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T00:50:30.046359+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PLBY Group CFO Lance Barton to depart by June 30, 2023

## Summary
- CFO Lance Barton will leave PLBY Group by June 30, 2023, to assist with transition.
- Departure is not due to any dispute or matter related to accounting or financial policies.
- Barton continues as CFO and principal financial officer until departure date.
- Entitled to severance payments per existing Employment Agreement dated Feb 2021; no new compensatory arrangements.
- Successor not yet named; company will conduct search.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001803914-23-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLBY
- cik: 0001803914
- company_name: Playboy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1803914/000180391423000019/0001803914-23-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1803914/000180391423000019/ply-20230316.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001803914-23-000019.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lance Barton departed as Chief Financial Officer at Playboy, Inc..
  - Action: will depart
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 16, 2023, PLBY Group, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Lance Barton, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, will depart from his roles at the Company and its subsidiaries by June 30, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1803914/000180391423000019/0001803914-23-000019-index.htm

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