---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-056179"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FOUR"
cik: "0001794669"
company_name: "Shift4 Payments, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T14:08:24.621379+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.78
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.78
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Jared Isaacman submits NASA ethics agreement; would resign and surrender majority voting control if confirmed

## Summary
- Founder/CEO/Chairman Isaacman submitted an ethics agreement to NASA on March 12, 2025, for his nomination as NASA administrator.
- Upon confirmation, he will resign all positions at Shift4 Payments and its subsidiaries.
- He will surrender Class B and C shares, converting them to Class A, reducing voting power from majority to ~25% of shares.
- The Taxable Receivable Agreement with Shift4 Payments will terminate upon conversion.
- He will divest dozens of personal stock holdings (e.g., Apple, Tesla, Microsoft) and terminate SpaceX contracts via RookX.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-056179
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FOUR
- cik: 0001794669
- company_name: Shift4 Payments, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.78
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.78
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1794669/000119312525056179/0001193125-25-056179-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1794669/000119312525056179/d825900d8k.htm

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