---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001834622-22-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAYW"
cik: "0001834622"
company_name: "Hayward Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T05:49:57.204293+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hayward appoints Billy Emory as principal accounting officer; Eifion Jones remains CFO

## Summary
- Billy Emory, 38, appointed principal accounting officer effective April 19, 2022.
- Emory joined Hayward in October 2021 as VP and Chief Accounting Officer.
- Previously served as Global Controller at SPX FLOW and Director at PwC.
- Eifion Jones stepped down as principal accounting officer but continues as SVP and CFO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001834622-22-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAYW
- cik: 0001834622
- company_name: Hayward Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834622/000183462222000032/0001834622-22-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834622/000183462222000032/hayw-20220419.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001834622-22-000032
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001834622-22-000032.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001834622-22-000032.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eifion Jones changed role as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Hayward Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: ceased serving as principal accounting officer
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Upon Mr. Emory’s appointment as principal accounting officer, Eifion Jones ceased serving in that capacity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834622/000183462222000032/0001834622-22-000032-index.htm
- Executive change
  Billy Emory was appointed as principal accounting officer at Hayward Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: On April 19, 2022, the Board of Directors of Hayward Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Billy Emory as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834622/000183462222000032/0001834622-22-000032-index.htm

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