---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000893538-24-000123"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SM"
cik: "0000893538"
company_name: "SM Energy Co"
filed_at: "2024-09-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T05:59:46.734062+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SM Energy appoints Beth McDonald as EVP and COO effective Sept 9, 2024

## Summary
- Base salary $560,000; short-term incentive target 100% of base; long-term incentive target $2.3M (50% RSUs, 50% PSUs).
- Sign-on bonus of $1,750,000, paid 50% at start and 50% at one-year anniversary.
- McDonald previously Executive VP – Strategic Planning, Field Development and Marketing at Pioneer Natural Resources.
- CEO Herb Vogel cites her 20 years of Permian and Eagle Ford experience; she will also oversee new Utah assets.
- Entered into a Change of Control Executive Severance Agreement with terms consistent with prior filings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000893538-24-000123
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SM
- cik: 0000893538
- company_name: SM Energy Co
- filed_at: 2024-09-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/893538/000089353824000123/0000893538-24-000123-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/893538/000089353824000123/sm-20240909.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000893538-24-000123
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000893538-24-000123.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000893538-24-000123.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Beth McDonald was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at SM Energy Co.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On September 9, 2024, SM Energy Company (the “ Company ”) announced that the Board of Directors of the Company had appointed Beth McDonald, age 45, as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/893538/000089353824000123/0000893538-24-000123-index.htm

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