---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-011492"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QS"
cik: "0001811414"
company_name: "QuantumScape Corp"
filed_at: "2022-06-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T02:52:17.496625+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# QuantumScape CMO Celina Mikolajczak departs, moves to advisory role

## Summary
- Chief Manufacturing Officer Celina Mikolajczak transitions to advisory role on Scientific Advisory Board; manufacturing and supply chain executives now report to CEO.
- Separation due to differing management styles; mutually agreed between parties.
- Mikolajczak receives six months base salary and up to six months COBRA reimbursement; separation revocable until June 13, 2022.
- As advisory board member, she continues to vest in her August 2021 RSU grant during initial one-year renewable term.
- Mikolajczak intends to focus on developing a fully U.S.-based battery supply chain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-011492
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QS
- cik: 0001811414
- company_name: QuantumScape Corp
- filed_at: 2022-06-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000095017022011492/0000950170-22-011492-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000095017022011492/qs-20220606.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-011492
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-011492.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Celina Mikolajczak departed as Chief Manufacturing Officer at QuantumScape Corp.
  - Action: separated
  - Role: Chief Manufacturing Officer
  source text: On June 6, 2022, the Company and Celina Mikolajczak entered into a Separation Agreement and Release (the “Separation Agreement”), pursuant to which the parties agreed to a mutual separation that will transition Ms. Mikolajczak from her full-time role as the Company’s Chief Manufacturing Officer to an advisory role on the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000095017022011492/0000950170-22-011492-index.htm

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