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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001528129-25-000084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001528129"
company_name: "Vital Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T10:33:01.154103+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Lisa Lambert resigns; board size cut to 9; annual meeting votes pass

## Summary
- Director Lisa M. Lambert resigned effective May 23, 2025; no disagreement with the company.
- Board reduced from 10 to 9 directors effective May 23, 2025.
- Committee changes: John Driver joins Compensation, leaves Audit; William Albrecht joins Nominating/Governance, leaves Finance.
- At May 22 annual meeting, Class III directors Albrecht, Hawes, Driver were elected with strong support.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2025 approved (31.6M for, 0.4M against); say-on-pay also approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001528129-25-000084
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001528129
- company_name: Vital Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000152812925000084/0001528129-25-000084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000152812925000084/vtle-20250521.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528129-25-000084.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lisa M. Lambert resigned as Director at Vital Energy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 21, 2025, Lisa M. Lambert, a member of the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Vital Energy, Inc. (the "Company") and a member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating, Corporate Governance, Environmental and Social Committee of the Board (the "Nominating and Governance Committee"), notified the Company that she would be resigning from the Board effective May 23, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000152812925000084/0001528129-25-000084-index.htm

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