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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-065715"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QS"
cik: "0001811414"
company_name: "QuantumScape Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T08:44:20.963645+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# QuantumScape appoints Luca Fasoli as COO; base $513k, equity ~1.3M RSUs

## Summary
- Dr. Fasoli joins QuantumScape Battery subsidiary as COO, reporting to CEO Siva Sivaram, effective May 7, 2025.
- He brings 20+ years of experience in advanced memory/storage from Western Digital and SanDisk.
- Compensation: $513k base salary, 60% bonus target; equity grants of 647,668 performance-based and 647,668 time-based RSUs, plus 25,906 signing RSUs.
- Eligible for executive severance plan and other benefit programs as described in the proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-065715
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QS
- cik: 0001811414
- company_name: QuantumScape Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000095017025065715/0000950170-25-065715-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000095017025065715/qs-20250507.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-065715
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-065715.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Luca Fasoli was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at QuantumScape Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: QuantumScape Corporation (the “Company”) announced today that Dr. Luca Fasoli is joining QuantumScape Battery, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as its Chief Operating Officer, effective May 7, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000095017025065715/0000950170-25-065715-index.htm

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