---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-014634"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HUT"
cik: "0001964789"
company_name: "Hut 8 Corp."
filed_at: "2024-02-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T04:31:45.364437+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hut 8 appoints President Asher Genoot as CEO; Jaime Leverton terminated without cause

## Summary
- Asher Genoot, age 29, becomes CEO effective Feb 6, 2024; previously President since Nov 2023 and co-founder of USBTC.
- Jaime Leverton terminated without cause; receives $1.1M cash severance, 452,664 RSUs fully vesting, and CAD$500k FY2023 bonus.
- CFO Shenif Visram gets retention bonuses totaling up to $1.06M and accelerated vesting of 66,666 RSUs through Jan 31, 2025.
- Chief Legal Officer Aniss Amdiss terminated without cause effective Feb 6, 2024, in connection with redomiciliation to Delaware.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-014634
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HUT
- cik: 0001964789
- company_name: Hut 8 Corp.
- filed_at: 2024-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465924014634/0001104659-24-014634-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465924014634/tm245886d2_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-014634
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-014634.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-014634.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jaime Leverton departed as Chief Executive Officer at Hut 8 Corp..
  - Action: terminated without cause
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Company notified Jaime Leverton of her termination, without cause, as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and all positions as an employee or officer of the Company and its subsidiaries, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465924014634/0001104659-24-014634-index.htm
- Executive change
  Asher Genoot was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Hut 8 Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On February 6, 2024, Hut 8 Corp. (the “Company”) determined that Asher Genoot, President of the Company, will succeed Jaime Leverton as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465924014634/0001104659-24-014634-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jaime Leverton resigned as Member of the Board of Directors at Hut 8 Corp..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: Ms. Leverton also resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company effective February 12, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1964789/000110465924014634/0001104659-24-014634-index.htm

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