---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001554795-25-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RCAT"
cik: "0000748268"
company_name: "Red Cat Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T17:05:58.560024+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Red Cat appoints CEO Jeffrey Thompson as interim CFO; Christian Ericson as permanent CFO

## Summary
- Jeffrey Thompson, CEO, appointed interim CFO effective March 17, 2025, until filing of 2024 10-K.
- Thompson receives no additional compensation for the interim CFO role.
- Christian Koji Ericson appointed CFO effective after 10-K filing; annual salary $230,000 with up to 50% bonus.
- Ericson received 50,000 time-based RSUs vesting 50% on first and 50% on second anniversary of hire.
- Ericson previously Head of Finance at Western Steel Buildings and spent 11 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001554795-25-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RCAT
- cik: 0000748268
- company_name: Red Cat Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/748268/000155479525000068/0001554795-25-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/748268/000155479525000068/rcat0317form8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Thompson was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Red Cat Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: appointed Jeffrey Thompson, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective from March 17, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/748268/000155479525000068/0001554795-25-000068-index.htm
- Executive change
  Christian Koji Ericson was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Red Cat Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 11, 2025, the Company appointed Christian Koji Ericson as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately after the filing of the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/748268/000155479525000068/0001554795-25-000068-index.htm

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