Resources Connection Names Jessica Block Interim CFO, Trisha Jenks Chief Accounting Officer

Resources Connection has named Jessica Block interim chief financial officer and appointed Trisha Jenks as chief accounting officer, reshaping the finance leadership of the Nasdaq-listed professional services company ahead of Jennifer Ryu’s planned departure.

Both changes take effect on Oct. 3, according to company filings. Ryu, who served as executive vice president and chief financial officer, submitted her resignation effective Oct. 2. Beginning the next day, Block will assume the interim CFO role and serve as principal financial officer, while Jenks will take on the chief accounting officer title and become principal accounting officer.

The appointments were laid out in a Sept. 21 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which also set out Jenks’ compensation and her background inside the company. Read together with RGP’s earlier announcement of the CFO transition, the moves show the company using an internal handoff to keep its finance function stable while it looks for a permanent successor.

Block steps in after Jennifer Ryu’s planned departure

RGP first disclosed the leadership change on Sept. 3, when it said Ryu had resigned and that it would start a search for a successor. In the same announcement, the company said Block would step in as interim CFO to provide continuity and maintain focus on its strategic priorities. That earlier company announcement remains the clearest statement of why RGP chose her for the interim post.

Block is not arriving as an outsider. She joined RGP in March 2026 as chief AI officer, a role created to push artificial intelligence deeper into the company’s own operations and into its offerings for clients. Before joining RGP, she served as executive vice president, head of growth and transformation, at Factor Law, a legal managed services and advisory firm. She also filled in as interim CFO at Factor from January 2023 to January 2024, giving her recent experience inside a finance leadership seat rather than only strategy and operations work.

Her résumé also includes senior leadership roles at Ankura Consulting Group and more than a decade at FTI Consulting, according to the Sept. 3 disclosure. RGP highlighted that background as part of its case for the appointment, saying her experience spans professional services growth, operational transformation and technology-driven change. That matters because the company did not merely pick a current executive to keep the lights on. It selected someone who already has interim CFO experience and who has been brought in this year to help shape a broader operating agenda.

For investors and clients, the immediate message is continuity. RGP is not leaving the CFO office vacant while it conducts an external search. Instead, it is putting Block in the role on an interim basis while keeping reporting lines intact, with Block continuing to report to Chief Executive Officer Roger Carlile.

Jenks brings internal accounting continuity

Jenks’ appointment complements that interim CFO decision by anchoring the accounting side of the finance organization with another long-serving internal executive. She joined RGP in October 2019 and currently serves as senior vice president, corporate controller, a post she has held since October 2025. Before that, she served as senior vice president, global revenue accounting, from July 2024 to October 2025 and as vice president, global accounting, from October 2019 to July 2024.

Her background before RGP included controller roles at several companies and time as an auditor senior at Ernst & Young LLP. The SEC filing also notes that she holds an MBA from California State University, Fullerton, and is a certified public accountant in California. Those details point to a promotion grounded in familiarity with the company’s books and reporting processes rather than a reset led by an outside hire.

The filing also disclosed the pay package attached to the move. Jenks’ annual base salary will rise to $350,000, and her annual target bonus opportunity for fiscal 2027 will be $150,000. That target bonus is guaranteed, subject to her remaining employed through the payment date. While the company did not frame the compensation change as unusual, the disclosure underlines that the board is not treating the new post as a temporary add-on to her controller duties. It is formalizing the role as a senior officer position.

RGP also included the standard governance language often seen in executive-appointment filings, stating there are no family relationships between Jenks and any director or executive officer and no direct or indirect material interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. Those lines are routine, but they matter because they confirm the board presented the move as a straightforward internal promotion.

Finance leadership is now split between financial and accounting oversight

One notable feature of the reshuffle is that RGP is separating responsibilities that had previously sat with one executive. Ryu had been both principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Starting Oct. 3, those responsibilities will be split, with Block serving as principal financial officer and Jenks serving as principal accounting officer. That structure can be useful during a transition because it puts treasury, capital-allocation and broader finance leadership with the interim CFO while day-to-day accounting oversight remains with a senior executive whose recent work has been rooted in controllership and revenue accounting.

The arrangement also gives RGP a clearer path while it searches for a permanent CFO. The company has not said how long that search could take or whether Block will be a candidate for the permanent role. What it has made clear is that it wants continuity in both finance leadership and accounting execution during the handoff from Ryu.

RGP, which is based in Dallas and listed on Nasdaq under the ticker RGP, is a professional services firm working across finance, digital transformation, data and other business functions. Against that backdrop, a smooth finance transition carries more significance than a routine personnel update. Public-company finance chiefs are central to reporting, investor communication and internal controls, while the chief accounting officer role is critical to the accuracy and execution of the reporting process itself.

As of Oct. 3, the company will have both positions filled, even if one remains temporary. That is the practical takeaway from the filings: Block is taking the interim CFO seat, Jenks is moving up to chief accounting officer, and RGP is using internal talent to manage a leadership transition while its search for a permanent finance chief gets under way.