---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-049908"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VSAT"
cik: "0000797721"
company_name: "VIASAT INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T04:37:28.961921+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rajeev Suri resigns from Viasat board as Inmarsat ownership falls below 25%

## Summary
- Rajeev Suri retired from the board effective March 6, 2025, after Inmarsat Investors' ownership dropped below 25% on Feb 10.
- Suri was one of two designees under the Stockholders Agreement; the other, Andrew Sukawaty, continues as director.
- The Inmarsat Investors remain entitled to designate one director as long as they hold at least 15% of Viasat common stock.
- The resignation follows contractual terms from the November 2021 Stockholders Agreement; no replacement was announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-049908
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VSAT
- cik: 0000797721
- company_name: VIASAT INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312525049908/0001193125-25-049908-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312525049908/d927185d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-049908
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-049908.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-049908.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rajeev Suri departed as director at VIASAT INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: director
  source text: Rajeev Suri notified the Company that he intends to retire from the Board effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312525049908/0001193125-25-049908-index.htm

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