TruGolf appoints Brenner Adams as Interim CEO in Place of resigning CEO and Director Chris Jones 

 Names Jay Heller as New Director

SALT LAKE CITY, UT, Sept. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TruGolf Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:TRUG) today announced the resignation of its founder, Chris Jones, as both Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the company. Brenner Adams, TruGolf’s current Chairman of the Board, will serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer while the company undertakes an executive search for a long-term replacement. Mr. Adams, a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur, brings extensive experience in both the gaming and sports markets, having worked on Microsoft’s Xbox team, as Global Brand Director at Burton Snowboards, and as a senior officer at TruGolf prior to stepping into his current principal role as Chief Strategist at TrueMark, an AWS Advanced Tier Partner.

TruGolf’s Board of Directors also appointed Jay Heller as a new director, replacing Mr. Jones. Mr. Heller is the Chief Executive Officer of K Lab, a technology company building programmable payments infrastructure for institutional money movement. He brings 18 years of leadership experience at NASDAQ, where he served as Vice President and Head of Capital Markets & IPO Execution, overseeing more than 3,000 public listings, including the landmark market debuts of Coinbase, Airbnb, Rivian, and CoreWeave.