flyExclusive Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Financial Statements and Exhibits
$FLYX
Transportation Services
Consumer Discretionary
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) June 18, 2024
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On June 18, 2024, Billy Barnard, the Interim Chief Financial Officer of flyExclusive, Inc. (the “Company”), resigned, effective immediately.
On June 24, 2024, the Company appointed Matthew Lesmeister as Chief Financial Officer, and Zachary Nichols as Chief Accounting Officer, both appointments effective June 25, 2024.
Mr. Lesmeister joined the Company in May 2024 as Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lesmeister served in various positions since February 2016 at Fox Factory Holding Corp., a publicly traded global leader in the design and manufacturing of premium products for sport and off-road vehicles, most recently as Vice President, Transformation and Strategy.
Mr. Nichols joined the Company in June 2020, and has held several finance and accounting roles, most recently as Senior Vice President Finance. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Nichols was a Finance Compliance Officer from September 2019 to May 2020 at Singapore Technologies Engineering, a publicly traded global technology and engineering group in the aerospace industry. Before that he was a staff accountant at Sullivan Shearin & Company in Greenville, North Carolina.
There are no family relationships between either of Mr. Lesmeister or Mr. Nichols and any of the Company’s directors or executive officers. There are no related party transactions between either of Mr. Lesmeister or Mr. Nichols and the Company,
The Company issued a press release on June 25, 2024, to report these changes, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this report and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statement and Exhibits.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Dated: June 25, 2024
| FLYEXCLUSIVE, INC. | |||||
| By: | /s/ Thomas James Segrave, Jr. | ||||
| Name: | Thomas James Segrave, Jr. | ||||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman | ||||
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