---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-023038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SKIL"
cik: "0001774675"
company_name: "Skillsoft Corp."
filed_at: "2024-07-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T19:08:33.147900+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Skillsoft appoints Fahd Beg and Jim Frankola to board; Illg and Tarr resign

## Summary
- Fahd Beg (Prosus investment partner) and Jim Frankola (ex-Cloudera CFO) appointed as directors, effective July 18, 2024.
- Beg serves as Class II director (term to 2026); Frankola as Class I director and Audit Committee member (term to 2025).
- Lawrence Illg and Jeffrey Tarr resigned from the board, effective the same date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-023038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SKIL
- cik: 0001774675
- company_name: Skillsoft Corp.
- filed_at: 2024-07-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924023038/0001437749-24-023038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924023038/skil20240718_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-023038
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-023038.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-023038.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jim Frankola was appointed as director at Skillsoft Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 18, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Skillsoft Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Fahd Beg and Mr. Jim Frankola as directors to fill vacancies on the Board created by the resignations of Mr. Lawrence C. Illg and Mr. Jeffrey Tarr, respectively, each appointment effective as of the completion of the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders on July 18, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924023038/0001437749-24-023038-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lawrence C. Illg resigned as director at Skillsoft Corp..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 18, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Skillsoft Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Fahd Beg and Mr. Jim Frankola as directors to fill vacancies on the Board created by the resignations of Mr. Lawrence C. Illg and Mr. Jeffrey Tarr, respectively, each appointment effective as of the completion of the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders on July 18, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924023038/0001437749-24-023038-index.htm
- Executive change
  Fahd Beg was appointed as director at Skillsoft Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 18, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Skillsoft Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Fahd Beg and Mr. Jim Frankola as directors to fill vacancies on the Board created by the resignations of Mr. Lawrence C. Illg and Mr. Jeffrey Tarr, respectively, each appointment effective as of the completion of the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders on July 18, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924023038/0001437749-24-023038-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Tarr resigned as director at Skillsoft Corp..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 18, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Skillsoft Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Fahd Beg and Mr. Jim Frankola as directors to fill vacancies on the Board created by the resignations of Mr. Lawrence C. Illg and Mr. Jeffrey Tarr, respectively, each appointment effective as of the completion of the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders on July 18, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1774675/000143774924023038/0001437749-24-023038-index.htm

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