---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-123678"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001429560"
company_name: "TREVENA INC"
filed_at: "2024-11-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T13:51:48.413271+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trevena names Katrine Sutton principal financial officer, replacing Barry Shin effective Nov 26

## Summary
- Barry Shin ceased as principal financial and accounting officer effective Nov 26, 2024; departure not due to any disagreement.
- Katrine Sutton, 48, appointed as principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, effective the same date.
- Ms. Sutton was VP Finance Planning and Analysis at Trevena since July 2019; previously VP Finance at Synergy Pharmaceuticals.
- She holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of Richmond and is a CPA; no family relations or material transactions with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-123678
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001429560
- company_name: TREVENA INC
- filed_at: 2024-11-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465924123678/0001104659-24-123678-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465924123678/tm2429629d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-123678.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Barry Shin departed as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at TREVENA INC.
  - Action: ceased
  - Role: Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Barry Shin will no longer serve as the Company’s principal financial officer or principal accounting officer, effective November 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465924123678/0001104659-24-123678-index.htm
- Executive change
  Katrine Sutton was appointed as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at TREVENA INC.
  - Action: designated
  - Role: Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: designated Katrine Sutton as the Company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, effective November 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465924123678/0001104659-24-123678-index.htm

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