---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-008681"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKV"
cik: "0001838406"
company_name: "BKV Corp"
filed_at: "2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T04:06:23.747044+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BKV CFO Jimenez to retire; Tameron named CFO; Jacobsen appointed President-Upstream

## Summary
- John Jimenez retires as CFO effective May 15, 2025; David Tameron (VP Strategic Finance) becomes CFO on April 1, 2025.
- Tameron receives $400k base salary, 95% bonus target, and $1.6M equity award in 2025.
- COO role eliminated; Eric Jacobsen named President-Upstream with $1M retention bonus, $2M equity grant, $2M severance.
- Jimenez gets severance of 36 months base salary plus $563,384 lump sum, subject to restrictive covenants until Nov 2027.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-008681
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKV
- cik: 0001838406
- company_name: BKV Corp
- filed_at: 2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838406/000110465925008681/0001104659-25-008681-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838406/000110465925008681/tm254711d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-008681.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John T. Jimenez departed as Chief Financial Officer at BKV Corp.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: John T. Jimenez, who has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company since 2021, intends to retire from the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838406/000110465925008681/0001104659-25-008681-index.htm
- Executive change
  David Tameron was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at BKV Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: David Tameron, age 56, will succeed him in the role of Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838406/000110465925008681/0001104659-25-008681-index.htm

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