---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-019260"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TALO"
cik: "0001724965"
company_name: "TALOS ENERGY INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T04:01:32.889261+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Talos Energy appoints Paul Goodfellow as President & CEO, effective March 1, 2025

## Summary
- Goodfellow joins from Shell, where he spent 34 years; most recently EVP & Group Chief Internal Auditor.
- Base salary $975,000; target annual bonus 125% of base; equity awards valued at ~$6.9M total (2025 LTIP + sign-on).
- PSU sign-on awards vest based on TALO stock closing at $14 and $16 for 60 consecutive trading days.
- Current Office of the Interim CEO (Moss, Maiworm, Spath) will terminate; Moss steps down as interim CEO but remains EVP & GC.
- Goodfellow plans to announce a new strategic plan after his first 100 days.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-019260
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TALO
- cik: 0001724965
- company_name: TALOS ENERGY INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-03T23:59:59+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/1724965/000119312525019260/0001193125-25-019260-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1724965/000119312525019260/d845029d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-019260.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul R. Goodfellow was appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director at TALOS ENERGY INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
  source text: On February 2, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Talos Energy Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Paul R. Goodfellow to serve as the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and principal executive officer, effective March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1724965/000119312525019260/0001193125-25-019260-index.htm

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