---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-037732"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EVLV"
cik: "0001805385"
company_name: "Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T08:20:13.138311+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Evolv Technology appoints Chris Kutsor as CFO; $425K salary, $3.5M equity awards

## Summary
- Appointment effective one business day after filing 2024 10-K; succeeds interim CFO Dave Rawden.
- Annual base salary of $425,000; target bonus opportunity of 75% of salary (prorated for 2025).
- Received $1.75M in performance-based MSUs tied to stock price milestones over 3-year performance period.
- Received $1.75M in time-based RSUs vesting in three equal annual installments.
- Previously CFO and COO of Kin + Carta (LSE: KCT); led sale to private equity in 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-037732
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EVLV
- cik: 0001805385
- company_name: Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925037732/0001104659-25-037732-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925037732/tm2512772d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-037732
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-037732.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dave Rawden departed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On the Effective Date, Mr. Kutsor will succeed Dave Rawden from AlixPartners LLP, a leading global business advisory firm, who has served as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since November 20, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925037732/0001104659-25-037732-index.htm
- Executive change
  George C. Kutsor was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 23, 2025, Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) appointed George C. Kutsor as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer on April 21, 2025, to be effective one business day following the filing of the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000110465925037732/0001104659-25-037732-index.htm

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