---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-029365"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGTI"
cik: "0001838359"
company_name: "Rigetti Computing, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T03:17:16.077603+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rigetti Computing reclassifies director Ray O. Johnson from Class I to Class III for 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Cathy McCarthy will not stand for re-election as Class III director at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Board nominated current Class I director Ray O. Johnson to stand for election as a Class III director at the meeting.
- Johnson will resign as Class I director contingent upon his election as a Class III director.
- Reclassification is intended to rebalance Board classes after McCarthy's term expires.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-029365
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGTI
- cik: 0001838359
- company_name: Rigetti Computing, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000110465925029365/0001104659-25-029365-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000110465925029365/tm2510792d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-029365
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-029365.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-029365.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cathy McCarthy departed as Class III director at Rigetti Computing, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Class III director
  source text: Cathy McCarthy would not stand for re-election as a Class III director on the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) upon the completion of her current term, which expires at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000110465925029365/0001104659-25-029365-index.htm

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