---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000003570-25-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LNG"
cik: "0000003570"
company_name: "Cheniere Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T00:07:39.246134+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cheniere Energy appoints Matthew Runkle to Board; Scott Peak resigns April 1, 2025

## Summary
- Matthew Runkle appointed to Board effective April 1, 2025, under investor rights agreement with CQP Holdco LP.
- Scott Peak resigned from Board on same date upon Runkle's appointment.
- Runkle entered standard indemnification agreement; no reportable transactions with Cheniere.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000003570-25-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LNG
- cik: 0000003570
- company_name: Cheniere Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3570/000000357025000043/0000003570-25-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3570/000000357025000043/lng-20250401.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000003570-25-000043
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000003570-25-000043.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000003570-25-000043.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew Runkle was appointed as Board of Directors at Cheniere Energy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Board of Directors
  source text: On April 1, 2025, Matthew Runkle was appointed to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cheniere Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) pursuant to a right granted to CQP Holdco LP (f/k/a Blackstone CQP Holdco LP), a Delaware limited partnership, in an Investors’ and Registration Rights Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of July 31, 2012, among Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P., Cheniere Energy Partners GP, LLC, the Company, CQP Holdco LP and the other investor party thereto.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3570/000000357025000043/0000003570-25-000043-index.htm
- Executive change
  Scott Peak resigned as Board of Directors at Cheniere Energy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Board of Directors
  source text: In connection with the appointment of Mr. Runkle and pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Scott Peak resigned from the Board on April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3570/000000357025000043/0000003570-25-000043-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.