---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-074696"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PYPL"
cik: "0001633917"
company_name: "PayPal Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T19:43:00.799989+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PayPal director Rodney Adkins to retire from board, not stand for re-election

## Summary
- Adkins has served as director since September 2017 and will not stand for re-election at the June 2025 Annual Meeting.
- His decision is not due to any disagreement with the company or its board.
- Board size to be reduced from 12 to 11 directors effective immediately before the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- He currently serves on the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee and the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-074696
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PYPL
- cik: 0001633917
- company_name: PayPal Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000119312525074696/0001193125-25-074696-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000119312525074696/d36783d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-074696.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-074696.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rodney Adkins departed as Director at PayPal Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 4, 2025, Rodney Adkins informed PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal” or the “Company”) that he will not stand for re-election to PayPal’s Board of Directors (“Board”) when his current term expires at PayPal’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (“2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000119312525074696/0001193125-25-074696-index.htm

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