---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-012056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SKIL"
cik: "0001774675"
company_name: "Skillsoft Corp."
filed_at: "2024-04-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T22:59:45.862662+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Skillsoft names Ron Hovsepian Executive Chair & CEO; Jeff Tarr retires effective April 16

## Summary
- Hovsepian appointed Executive Chair and principal executive officer effective April 16, 2024; succeeds retiring CEO Jeffrey R. Tarr.
- Tarr resigns from board and CEO role on April 16; will serve as advisor until May 9, 2024.
- Hovsepian served on Skillsoft board since 2018, was Executive Chair 2018-2021, oversaw Percipio platform migration and return to public markets.
- Tarr receives severance per his employment agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.7 to annual report).
- Company separately reported Q4 and full-year fiscal 2024 financial results (not detailed in this filing).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-012056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SKIL
- cik: 0001774675
- company_name: Skillsoft Corp.
- filed_at: 2024-04-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924012056/0001437749-24-012056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924012056/skil20240414_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-012056
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-012056.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-012056.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey R. Tarr retired as Chief Executive Officer at Skillsoft Corp..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Hovsepian will succeed Jeffrey R. Tarr as principal executive officer, who will retire from the position of Chief Executive Officer effective as of April 16, 2024 (the “Transition Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924012056/0001437749-24-012056-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ronald W. Hovsepian was appointed as Executive Chair and principal executive officer at Skillsoft Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Chair and principal executive officer
  source text: On April 9, 2024, the Board of Directors of Skillsoft Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Ronald W. Hovsepian as the Company’s Executive Chair and principal executive officer, effective as of April 16, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924012056/0001437749-24-012056-index.htm

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