---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-033084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RDVT"
cik: "0001720116"
company_name: "Red Violet, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T10:43:54.757050+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Red Violet appoints Greg Strakosch to board, replaces departing Peter Benz

## Summary
- Peter Benz resigned effective March 4, 2025, with no disagreement over company operations or policies.
- Greg Strakosch, former TechTarget CEO and chairman, appointed to fill the vacancy effective March 4, 2025.
- Strakosch receives $25,000 annual cash compensation plus $75,000 RSU grant vesting over three years.
- Lisa Stanton appointed Audit Committee Chair; William Livek added to Audit, Compensation, and Governance Committees.
- Strakosch is independent under NASDAQ rules and has no reportable transactions with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-033084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RDVT
- cik: 0001720116
- company_name: Red Violet, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1720116/000095017025033084/0000950170-25-033084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1720116/000095017025033084/rdvt-20250303.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-033084.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Benz resigned as Member of the Board of Directors at Red Violet, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: On March 3, 2025, Peter Benz, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Red Violet, Inc. (the “Company”) resigned effective March 4, 2025 from the Board and its committees to pursue other business commitments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1720116/000095017025033084/0000950170-25-033084-index.htm
- Executive change
  Greg Strakosch was appointed as Member of the Board of Directors at Red Violet, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: On March 4, 2025, the Company’s Board appointed Greg Strakosch to the Board, effective immediately to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Benz’s resignation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1720116/000095017025033084/0000950170-25-033084-index.htm

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