secwatch / observer
8-K filed February 20, 2025, 6:59 PM ET ticker FANG CIK 0001539838
leadership confidence high sentiment neutral materiality 0.75

Diamondback Energy CEO Travis Stice to step down; Kaes Van't Hof to succeed as CEO at 2025 annual meeting

Diamondback Energy, Inc.

item 5.02item 7.01item 9.01

Executive movements

Machine-extracted from this filing. Every card cites the SEC source. See all recent executive movements.

Role change

Kaes Van't Hof

Chief Executive Officer
FANG · Diamondback Energy, Inc.
Filed
February 20, 2025, 6:59 PM ET
Kaes Van’t Hof, current President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will succeed Mr. Stice as Chief Executive Officer and will be nominated for election to the Board at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Departed

David L. Houston

Director
FANG · Diamondback Energy, Inc.
Filed
February 20, 2025, 6:59 PM ET
David L. Houston, who has been a member of the Board since the Company’s initial public offering and who currently serves on the Company’s Audit Committee and Safety, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee, informed the Company of his decision to retire as a director when his existing term concludes immediately after the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Role change

Travis D. Stice

Executive Chairman
FANG · Diamondback Energy, Inc.
Successor
Kaes Van't Hof
Filed
February 20, 2025, 6:59 PM ET
Travis D. Stice intends to step down as Chief Executive Officer effective as of the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. At that time, Mr. Stice will transition from Chief Executive Officer to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”)
Appointed

Jere W. Thompson III

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
FANG · Diamondback Energy, Inc.
Effective
2025-02-20
Filed
February 20, 2025, 6:59 PM ET
Effective as of February 20, 2025, Jere W. Thompson III, current Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development of the Company, will assume the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Key facts

Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.

Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Kaes Van't Hof changed role as Chief Executive Officer at Diamondback Energy, Inc..

Action
succeeded
Role
Chief Executive Officer
Exact text from the filing
Kaes Van’t Hof, current President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will succeed Mr. Stice as Chief Executive Officer and will be nominated for election to the Board at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
View on SEC.gov
Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

David L. Houston retired as Director at Diamondback Energy, Inc..

Action
retired
Role
Director
Exact text from the filing
David L. Houston, who has been a member of the Board since the Company’s initial public offering and who currently serves on the Company’s Audit Committee and Safety, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee, informed the Company of his decision to retire as a director when his existing term concludes immediately after the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
View on SEC.gov
Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Travis D. Stice changed role as Executive Chairman at Diamondback Energy, Inc..

Action
transitioned
Role
Executive Chairman
Exact text from the filing
Travis D. Stice intends to step down as Chief Executive Officer effective as of the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. At that time, Mr. Stice will transition from Chief Executive Officer to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”)
View on SEC.gov
Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Jere W. Thompson III was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Diamondback Energy, Inc..

Action
appointed
Role
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Exact text from the filing
Effective as of February 20, 2025, Jere W. Thompson III, current Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development of the Company, will assume the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
View on SEC.gov

Diamondback Energy, Inc. filing history →

Source: SEC EDGAR
accession 0001140361-25-005267
view filing index on sec.gov
view primary document
Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · Plain text

This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice. See methodology for how this pipeline works.