---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-032641"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLVT"
cik: "0001764046"
company_name: "CLARIVATE PLC"
filed_at: "2022-03-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T23:39:25.210123+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Clarivate appoints Michael Easton as Chief Accounting Officer effective June 6, 2022

## Summary
- Christie Archbold stepped down as CAO on March 7, 2022; Heather Matzke-Hamlin serves as acting CAO until June 6, 2022.
- Michael Easton, formerly SVP Finance & CAO at IHS Markit, appointed SVP Finance & CAO effective June 6, 2022.
- Easton receives $450,000 base salary, 75% target annual incentive, $1M initial equity grant, and $1M sign-on RSU award.
- Sign-on RSU vesting: 50% on March 1, 2023, 25% each March 1, 2024 and 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-032641
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLVT
- cik: 0001764046
- company_name: CLARIVATE PLC
- filed_at: 2022-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764046/000110465922032641/0001104659-22-032641-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764046/000110465922032641/tm228916-1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-032641.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christie Archbold departed as Chief Accounting Officer at CLARIVATE PLC.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Christie Archbold, who has served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Clarivate Plc (the “Company”), stepped down from her role on March 7, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764046/000110465922032641/0001104659-22-032641-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael Easton was appointed as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at CLARIVATE PLC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Michael Easton, age 49, will assume the role of Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company effective as of June 6, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764046/000110465922032641/0001104659-22-032641-index.htm

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