---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-280769"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGTI"
cik: "0001838359"
company_name: "Rigetti Computing, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T01:56:32.720140+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Founder Chad Rigetti to resign as CEO of Rigetti Computing effective Dec 15, 2022

## Summary
- Chad Rigetti, Founder, President, CEO, and Director, intends to resign effective December 15, 2022.
- Board is searching for a successor; if not appointed, General Counsel Rick Danis will serve as interim CEO.
- Rick Danis has over 25 years of in-house legal experience at technology companies including Rightside Group and Kymeta.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-280769
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGTI
- cik: 0001838359
- company_name: Rigetti Computing, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- 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/1838359/000119312522280769/0001193125-22-280769-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000119312522280769/d408366d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-280769
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-280769.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-280769.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Chad Rigetti resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Rigetti Computing, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On November 7, 2022, Chad Rigetti, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rigetti Computing, Inc. (the “Company”), provided the Company with his intention to tender resignation from his positions with the Company as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director on the Company’s Board of Directors, with an anticipated effective date of December 15, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000119312522280769/0001193125-22-280769-index.htm

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