---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-208251"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VSAT"
cik: "0000797721"
company_name: "VIASAT INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:18:37.918511+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Viasat appoints Gary Chase as CFO, effective Sep 16; Shawn Duffy becomes CAO

## Summary
- Appoints Gary Chase (Garrett L. Chase) as CFO, effective Sep 16, 2024; succeeds Shawn Duffy who becomes Chief Accounting Officer.
- Chase joins from Delta Air Lines where he served as SVP Operational Finance and interim Co-CFO (2020-2021).
- Chase receives $475k sign-on bonus (repayable if resigns before 2 years), $1.25M RSU, $3M sign-on RSU, and $1.25M PSU.
- Severance: without cause termination outside change-in-control pays 1x salary+bonus plus 18 months benefits; change-in-control pays 2x.
- Duffy, CFO since 2014, remains as CAO; revenues tripled to $4.5B under her tenure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-208251
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VSAT
- cik: 0000797721
- company_name: VIASAT INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312524208251/0001193125-24-208251-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312524208251/d848103d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-208251.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Shawn Duffy changed role as Chief Accounting Officer at VIASAT INC.
  - Action: remain
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: He will succeed Shawn Duffy, who will remain with Viasat in the role of Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312524208251/0001193125-24-208251-index.htm
- Executive change
  Garrett L. Chase was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at VIASAT INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 23, 2024, Garrett L. Chase agreed to join Viasat, Inc. (“Viasat”) in the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective September 16, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312524208251/0001193125-24-208251-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.