{"url_path":"/sec/wvvi/8-k/2026-05-20/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-05-20","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/838875/0001199835-26-000182-index.html","accession_number":"0001199835-26-000182","cik":"0000838875","ticker":"WVVI","issuer_name":"WILLAMETTE VALLEY VINEYARDS INC","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/838875/0001199835-26-000182-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0000838875","primary_entity_name":"WILLAMETTE VALLEY VINEYARDS INC"},"word_count":242,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain\nOfficers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**\n\n \n\nOn May 19, 2026, the board of directors of Willamette Valley Vineyards,\nInc. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. John Hazlett as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer effective May 20, 2026.\n\n \n\nMr. Hazlett, 51, has served as the founding partner\nof Trailwise Advisory Services, a provider of fractional CFO and financial advisory services, since January 2025. From December 2021 to\nDecember 2024, he served as Chief Financial Officer of RENA Technologies North America, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. From March\n2018 to March 2020, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Climax Portable Machine Tools. Earlier in his career, he held senior financial\nleadership roles at Eaton Corporation and Microsoft beginning in 2002. Mr. Hazlett holds an MBA from Baldwin Wallace University and a\nBachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Bowling Green State University. He also maintains an active Certified Public Accountant\nlicense in the State of Ohio.\n\n \n\nMr. Hazlett was not appointed as the Company’s\nChief Financial Officer pursuant to any arrangement or understanding with any other person.\n\n \n\nMr. Hazlett has no family relationships with any current\ndirector, director nominee, or executive officer of the Company, and there are no transactions or proposed transactions, to which the\nCompany is a party, or intended to be a party, in which Mr. Hazlett has, or will have, a material interest subject to disclosure under"}