---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001539838-25-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FANG"
cik: "0001539838"
company_name: "Diamondback Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:28:52.723838+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Diamondback Energy CEO transition: Stice becomes Executive Chairman, Van't Hof new CEO

## Summary
- Travis Stice stepped down as CEO effective May 21, 2025; became Executive Chairman.
- Kaes Van't Hof, former President, succeeded Stice as CEO and elected to board.
- David L. Houston retired as director after 12 years; did not stand for re-election.
- All 13 directors elected; say-on-pay approved (253.9M for); Grant Thornton ratified; severance proposal defeated.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001539838-25-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FANG
- cik: 0001539838
- company_name: Diamondback Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000153983825000072/0001539838-25-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000153983825000072/fang-20250521.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001539838-25-000072
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001539838-25-000072.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001539838-25-000072.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Travis D. Stice changed role as Executive Chairman at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and became Executive Chairman
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Travis D. Stice stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and became Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, in each case effective as of May 21, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000153983825000072/0001539838-25-000072-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kaes Van't Hof was appointed as Director at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: elected to serve as a director
  - Role: Director
  source text: At the 2025 Annual Meeting, Mr. Van’t Hof was also elected to serve as a director of the Company until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000153983825000072/0001539838-25-000072-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kaes Van't Hof changed role as Chief Executive Officer at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: succeeded Travis Stice as Chief Executive Officer
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective as of the date of the 2025 Annual Meeting, Kaes Van’t Hof, former President of the Company, succeeded Mr. Stice as Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000153983825000072/0001539838-25-000072-index.htm
- Executive change
  David L. Houston departed as Director at Diamondback Energy, Inc..
  - Action: retired and did not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: David L. Houston, who served as a director of the Company since the Company’s initial public offering, did not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting and retired as a director and member of the Company’s Audit Committee and Safety, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee, effective as of the date of the 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539838/000153983825000072/0001539838-25-000072-index.htm

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