How the profiles are made

The records

CFO Spotlights reads three open files published by CFO Tribune, the public record of chief financial officer appointments built from SEC filings: the verified moves (427 records, filings from June 1, 2026), the seats taken from 10-K signature pages (830 companies, annual reports filed from September 2025), and auditor-change and restatement disclosures (read, not yet shown here). Each record carries the filing on sec.gov it was taken from. The site keeps a dated snapshot of the files and rebuilds from it; these pages reflect the records as of October 28, 2026.

A person gets a profile when the record has at least one verified move or 10-K seat in their name: 1,167 profiles today. A profile that rests on a single 10-K signature line (546 of them) is published so the index is complete but asks search engines not to index it until the record grows.

One person, or two

The records carry names as filings print them, not an identifier for the person. Records are joined into one profile only when the filings tie them together: the same company; a filing that names the other company as the appointee's previous employer; or affiliated filers reporting the same succession, between the same people, on the same day. Two records that merely share a name stay on two profiles, each noting the other. Names are never normalised: a middle initial in one filing and not another makes two names until a filing ties them.

Dates

Dates are printed as the filing gives them. An effective date the filing hedges is shown as a month; one it does not give is shown as not stated. A seat known only from a 10-K signature is known on the day the report was filed, and the profile says so instead of inventing a start date. A seat is called current only when its latest filing is under 18 months old and no later filing at the company names someone else; where one does, the profile says a later filing names a successor and does not claim the earlier officer left. Each page shows the day it was first published here, which is set once by the build and never moved.

What is never printed

No photographs, portraits or likenesses. No family, health, home or pay details. No pronouns the record does not give: profiles use the person's name. No reason for a departure beyond the filing's own words, and no judgement of anyone's performance. Nothing on the site is investment advice, and a change of CFO is not offered as a signal about a company's shares.

Career-path figures

The career-path pages are computed from the same records at build time. The prior-role groups are a published rule applied to the filing's wording, printed on the page, with every appointment listed so the grouping can be checked line by line. Internal promotion and first-time status are the record's fields; where a filing does not settle them they are counted as unknown, not guessed.

Corrections and removal

Write to corrections@cfospotlights.com. A correction is made on the page with a dated note. A person can ask for their profile to be removed and the request is answered within 72 hours; the filings themselves remain public at the SEC and in the record.

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