Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;


          Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
          Officers.




(d) Appointment of Directors.

Effective December 28, 2021, the board of directors (the "Board") of CF Acquisition Corp. IV (the "Company") appointed Mark Kaplan and Robert Hochberg as members of the Board. Mr. Kaplan will serve as a Class I director and Mr. Hochberg as a Class II director. Additionally, effective December 28, 2021, the Board appointed Mr. Hochberg as a member of the audit committee (the "Audit Committee") and the compensation committee (the "Compensation Committee") of the Board. Mr. Hochberg replaces Mr. Steven Bisgay as a member of the Audit Committee. As a result of these appointments, the Company believes that it is in compliance with the corporate governance requirements of the Nasdaq Stock Market to have all members of the Audit Committee being independent within one year of the consummation of the Company's initial public offering.

Mr. Kaplan, age 61, is currently the Global Chief Operating Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., the Investment Banking, Asset Management arm of Cantor Fitzgerald ("Cantor"), a position he has held since February 2018. In that role, Mr. Kaplan oversees the businesses and operations of Cantor's primary business divisions, both domestically and internationally. From 2007 to 2017, Mr. Kaplan was Chief Operating Officer for Société Générale in the Americas ("Société Générale") where he was responsible for managing its regional operations, including the IT, Operations, Finance, Product Control, Operational Risk, IT Security, BCP, Sourcing and Real Estate departments. As part of that role, Mr. Kaplan helped develop and build many of the firm's business initiatives, as well as several significant mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that position, Mr. Kaplan spent six years as the General Counsel for Société Générale, and for its investment banking subsidiary, Cowen & Co., leading their Legal and Compliance departments. Before joining Société Générale, Mr. Kaplan was the U.S. General Counsel of CBIC. And prior to that position was a Managing Director and Director of Litigation at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. Mr. Kaplan has a B.A. from Bucknell University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.

Mr. Hochberg, age 59, is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Numeric Computer Systems, Inc. ("Numeric"). Mr. Hochberg has served at Numeric as President since June 1984 and as Chief Executive Officer since November 1994. Numeric is a global software company with offices in New York, San Juan, Auckland, Jakarta and Sydney. Mr. Hochberg has also served as a director of CF Acquisition Corp. VIII since March 2021. Mr. Hochberg previously served as a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. from January 2020 until the consummation of its business combination with GCM Grosvenor, Inc. in November 2020, a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II from August 2020 until consummation of its business combination with View, Inc. in March 2021 and CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III from November 2020 until consummation of its business combination with AEye, Inc. in August 2021. Mr. Hochberg is a graduate of Vassar College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

In connection with the appointment of Mr. Hochberg, the Board and the Compensation Committee approved a one-time payment of $25,000 to him, payable at the earlier of the Company's initial business combination and March 31, 2022. In addition, the Company's sponsor, CFAC Holdings IV, LLC will transfer an aggregate of 2,500 shares of the Company's Class A common stock to Mr. Hochberg in connection with his appointment.

There are no family relationships between Mr. Kaplan or Mr. Hochberg and any director, executive officer, or person nominated or chosen by the Company to become an executive officer of the Company.





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