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accession: "0000950170-25-091233"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GAIA"
cik: "0001089872"
company_name: "GAIA, INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
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event_type: "leadership"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Gaia appoints Kiersten Medvedich as first female CEO; Colquhoun shifts to CBO

## Summary
- Kiersten Medvedich appointed CEO effective June 27, 2025; first female CEO in Gaia's history.
- James Colquhoun transitions to Chief Business Development Officer from CEO role.
- Medvedich previously served as President; compensation unchanged from April 2025 proxy.
- Medvedich reports to Executive Chairman Jirka Rysavy; will lead day-to-day operations.
- Medvedich spent 15 years at Sony Pictures Television before joining Gaia in 2016.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-091233
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GAIA
- cik: 0001089872
- company_name: GAIA, INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089872/000095017025091233/0000950170-25-091233-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089872/000095017025091233/gaia-20250626.htm

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