---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-008892"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EVLV"
cik: "0001805385"
company_name: "Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:36:31.371110+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Evolv Technology appoints Richard Shapiro to Board, effective Feb 3, 2025

## Summary
- Shapiro appointed as Class II director, will serve on Audit Committee; term until 2026 annual meeting.
- Kevin Charlton steps down from Audit Committee but remains on Compensation and Investment Committees.
- Shapiro has ~30 years investment experience; currently CIO of Ridge Run Partners, previously at Millennium Management and Wexford Capital.
- Shapiro was recommended by a shareholder during the company's recent engagement campaign.
- He will receive standard non-employee director compensation (pro-rated cash retainer and RSU grant).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-008892
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EVLV
- cik: 0001805385
- company_name: Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925008892/0001104659-25-008892-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925008892/tm255320d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-008892
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-008892.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard Shapiro was appointed as Class II Director at Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On January 31, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Richard Shapiro to the Company’s Board, effective February 3, 2025, to serve as a Class II director until the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925008892/0001104659-25-008892-index.htm

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