---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-005035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEVO"
cik: "0001392380"
company_name: "Gevo, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-03-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T02:20:43.198222+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gevo CAO Carolyn Romero to retire effective March 4, 2022

## Summary
- Carolyn Romero, Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer, will retire at close of business on March 4, 2022.
- Retirement is not due to any disagreement with auditors or management on accounting principles, disclosure, or internal controls.
- CEO Patrick Gruber thanked Romero for her contributions and wished her well in retirement.
- No successor has been named in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-005035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEVO
- cik: 0001392380
- company_name: Gevo, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-03-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1392380/000143774922005035/0001437749-22-005035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1392380/000143774922005035/gevo20220228_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-005035
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-005035.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-005035.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carolyn Romero retired as Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at Gevo, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 25, 2022, Carolyn Romero, the Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of Gevo, Inc. (the “Company), communicated to the Company her intention to retire from the Company as of the close of business on March 4, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1392380/000143774922005035/0001437749-22-005035-index.htm

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