---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-008615"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001429560"
company_name: "TREVENA INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:56:50.295883+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trevena director resigns, VP Finance terminated; consulting agreement references potential sale or wind down

## Summary
- Director Scott Braunstein resigned Jan 31; board reduced to two members (Carrie Bourdow, Barbara Yanni).
- VP Finance Katrine Sutton terminated without cause Jan 31; continues as principal financial/accounting officer.
- Consulting agreement with Sutton at $250/hr through June 30, 2025; aggregate spending capped at $25,000.
- Exhibit A states consulting services support 'successful sale or wind down of the Company'.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-008615
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001429560
- company_name: TREVENA INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465925008615/0001104659-25-008615-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465925008615/tm255124d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-008615
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-008615.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-008615.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Katrine Sutton changed role as Vice President, Finance Planning and Analysis at TREVENA INC.
  - Action: terminated without cause (continues as principal financial and accounting officer)
  - Role: Vice President, Finance Planning and Analysis
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company approved the termination of employment, without cause, of Katrine Sutton, the Company’s Vice President, Finance Planning and Analysis, effective as of January 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465925008615/0001104659-25-008615-index.htm
- Executive change
  Scott Braunstein resigned as Director at TREVENA INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Scott Braunstein, M.D. resigned from the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and the Audit Committee thereof, effective as of January 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1429560/000110465925008615/0001104659-25-008615-index.htm

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