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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001376139-21-000097"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CVI"
cik: "0001376139"
company_name: "CVR ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T07:49:07.347886+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CVR Energy enters severance agreement with former CFO Tracy Jackson for $789K

## Summary
- Cash payments total $789,000: $189,000 upfront plus three $200,000 installments through Aug 2024.
- Severance contingent on confidentiality, non-solicitation, non-disparagement, and release of claims.
- Ms. Jackson resigned as EVP, CFO and principal accounting officer; this is previously disclosed departure.
- Agreement will be filed as exhibit to next quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001376139-21-000097
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CVI
- cik: 0001376139
- company_name: CVR ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1376139/000137613921000097/0001376139-21-000097-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1376139/000137613921000097/cvi-20210821.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001376139-21-000097.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tracy D. Jackson resigned as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at CVR ENERGY INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 21, 2021, CVR Energy, Inc. (the “Company”), together with CVR Partners, LP (the “Partnership”) and a subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Severance and Release Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Tracy D. Jackson in connection with her previously disclosed resignation from the positions of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and principal accounting officer of the Company and the general partner of the Partnership.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1376139/000137613921000097/0001376139-21-000097-index.htm

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