---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-025486"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001849089"
company_name: "Lafayette Square USA, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T12:10:20.313929+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lafayette Square USA replaces Chief Compliance Officer; Stone out, Martineau in

## Summary
- Ileana Stone resigned as Chief Compliance Officer effective March 14, 2025, with no disagreements on operations, policies, or practices.
- Joyce Martineau appointed as new Chief Compliance Officer, effective same date; previously Director, Compliance Officer at LS BDC Adviser, LLC since Jan 2024.
- Martineau has prior compliance roles at Anchorage Capital Group, Och-Ziff Capital Management, Tudor Investment Corporation, and ACA Compliance Group.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-025486
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001849089
- company_name: Lafayette Square USA, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849089/000110465925025486/0001104659-25-025486-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849089/000110465925025486/tm259799d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joyce Martineau was appointed as Chief Compliance Officer at Lafayette Square USA, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Compliance Officer
  source text: Effective March 14, 2025 the board of directors of the Company appointed Joyce Martineau to replace Ms. Stone as the Company’s Chief Compliance Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849089/000110465925025486/0001104659-25-025486-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ileana Stone resigned as Chief Compliance Officer at Lafayette Square USA, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Compliance Officer
  source text: Effective March 14, 2025, Ileana Stone will no longer serve as Chief Compliance Officer of Lafayette Square USA, Inc. (the “Company”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849089/000110465925025486/0001104659-25-025486-index.htm

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