---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-084772"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVAV"
cik: "0001368622"
company_name: "AeroVironment Inc"
filed_at: "2023-07-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T00:07:07.273726+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AeroVironment director Catharine Merigold will not stand for re-election; term ends Sept. 29, 2023

## Summary
- Merigold's term ends at the 2023 annual meeting on September 29, 2023.
- She served on the Audit and Compensation Committees since joining the board in 2015.
- Decision is not due to any disagreement with the company, its auditors or advisors.
- No replacement named; board composition change disclosed under Item 5.02.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-084772
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVAV
- cik: 0001368622
- company_name: AeroVironment Inc
- filed_at: 2023-07-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465923084772/0001104659-23-084772-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465923084772/tm2322091d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-084772.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Catharine Merigold departed as Director at AeroVironment Inc.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Catharine Merigold, a member of the AeroVironment, Inc. (the “Company”) Board of Directors (the “Board”), notified the Board that she would not stand for re-election as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465923084772/0001104659-23-084772-index.htm

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