---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001856525-24-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNM"
cik: "0001856525"
company_name: "Core & Main, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T03:15:32.003718+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Core & Main elects James D. Hope to board; board expands to nine members

## Summary
- Board size increased to nine directors; Hope appointed as Class I director effective May 1, 2024.
- Hope served as EVP and CFO of Performance Food Group until 2022; spent 26 years at Sysco.
- He joins Audit Committee; receives pro-rata portion of $120K RSUs + $80K cash, plus $10K annual cash for Audit.
- Hope is the eighth independent director on the nine-member board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001856525-24-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNM
- cik: 0001856525
- company_name: Core & Main, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856525/000185652524000050/0001856525-24-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856525/000185652524000050/cnm-20240501.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001856525-24-000050
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001856525-24-000050.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001856525-24-000050.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James D. Hope was appointed as Class I Director at Core & Main, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class I Director
  source text: James D. Hope was appointed to the Board as a Class I director to fill the vacancy on the Board created by the increase in Board size.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856525/000185652524000050/0001856525-24-000050-index.htm

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