---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-005267"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FANG"
cik: "0001539838"
company_name: "Diamondback Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T08:43:52.142630+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

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

## Summary
- Travis Stice steps down as CEO at 2025 annual meeting; becomes Executive Chairman through 2026 annual meeting.
- Kaes Van't Hof, current President, becomes CEO and joins Board; Jere Thompson promoted to CFO effective Feb 20, 2025.
- David Houston to retire from Board at 2025 annual meeting after serving since IPO.
- Stice receives $900k base salary as Executive Chairman, 150% bonus target, equity awards totaling $20.8M over 2025-2026.
- Van't Hof receives $1.3M base salary as CEO, 150% bonus target; Thompson receives $550k base, 90% bonus target.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-005267
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FANG
- cik: 0001539838
- company_name: Diamondback Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000114036125005267/0001140361-25-005267-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000114036125005267/ef20043983_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-005267.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kaes Van't Hof changed role as Chief Executive Officer at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: succeeded
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000114036125005267/0001140361-25-005267-index.htm
- Executive change
  David L. Houston retired as Director at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000114036125005267/0001140361-25-005267-index.htm
- Executive change
  Travis D. Stice changed role as Executive Chairman at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: 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”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000114036125005267/0001140361-25-005267-index.htm
- Executive change
  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
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000114036125005267/0001140361-25-005267-index.htm

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