secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Vivid Seats Inc. (SEAT)
CIK:        0001856031
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-01-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-016594
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Vivid Seats appoints Joseph Thomas as CFO, effective Jan 19, 2026
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- Succeeds Edward Pickus, who served as interim CFO since Nov 2025 and will remain Chief Accounting Officer.
- Thomas previously CFO at Reliable Parts (Aug 2023–Jan 2026); background in private equity and investment banking.
- Compensation: $350k base salary, target bonus of 50% of base; one-time RSU award of 152,905 shares vesting quarterly through Dec 11, 2027.
- Annual equity grants to begin in 2027, with form and amount determined by the Board.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856031/000119312526016594/0001193125-26-016594-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856031/000119312526016594/seat-20260114.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-016594

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