Rivian Automotive Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update
$RIVN
Auto Manufacturing
Consumer Discretionary
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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.
(d) On April 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Rivian Automotive, Inc. (the "Company") increased the size of the Board and elected Aidan Gomez to serve as a Class II director of the Company with a term expiring at the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, effective immediately.
Mr. Gomez currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and board member of Cohere Inc., a security-first enterprise artificial intelligence company since September 2019. Prior to Cohere, Mr. Gomez served as a researcher at Google, working on its deep learning Google Brain project. Mr. Gomez holds a B.S. from University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oxford University.
Mr. Gomez will participate in the Company’s Non-Employee Director Compensation Program, as described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on April 29, 2024. A copy of the Non-Employee Director Compensation Program is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 as filed with the SEC on August 8, 2023. Mr. Gomez has also entered into the Company’s standard indemnification agreement for directors and officers.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, INC. | ||||||||
Date: April 21, 2025 | By: | /s/ Claire McDonough | ||||||
| Name: | Claire McDonough | |||||||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||||||