---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-021750"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OKLO"
cik: "0001849056"
company_name: "Oklo Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T03:57:01.056561+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Oklo appoints Michael Thompson and Daniel Poneman as Class III directors

## Summary
- Appointments effective March 4, 2025; both accepted and joined the Board.
- Thompson joins Audit Committee; Poneman joins Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.
- Each director receives initial RSU award valued at $150,000, vesting one year from appointment.
- Poneman is former Deputy Secretary of Energy and ex-CEO of Centrus Energy.
- Thompson is managing partner at Reinvent Capital and previously founder of BHR Capital.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-021750
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OKLO
- cik: 0001849056
- company_name: Oklo Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465925021750/0001104659-25-021750-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465925021750/tm258622d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-021750
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-021750.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-021750.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Thompson was appointed as Class III Director at Oklo Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class III Director
  source text: Messrs. Thompson and Poneman promptly accepted these offers, and were appointed as Class III directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465925021750/0001104659-25-021750-index.htm
- Executive change
  Daniel B. Poneman was appointed as Class III Director at Oklo Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class III Director
  source text: Messrs. Thompson and Poneman promptly accepted these offers, and were appointed as Class III directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465925021750/0001104659-25-021750-index.htm

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