---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001576427-24-000103"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRTO"
cik: "0001576427"
company_name: "Criteo S.A."
filed_at: "2024-08-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:38:28.706426+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Criteo CEO Megan Clarken to retire; board initiates CEO search with Heidrick & Struggles

## Summary
- Megan Clarken to retire as CEO within 12 months; will stay until successor named and then serve as senior advisor.
- Board engaged Heidrick & Struggles to conduct internal and external CEO search.
- Transition Phase 1 (full-time): base salary + prorated 2025 bonus; Phase 2 (ad-hoc): $10,000/mo salary.
- Equity awards continue vesting through Phase 2; no new long-term incentive grants in 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001576427-24-000103
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRTO
- cik: 0001576427
- company_name: Criteo S.A.
- filed_at: 2024-08-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576427/000157642724000103/0001576427-24-000103-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576427/000157642724000103/crto-20240826.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001576427-24-000103
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001576427-24-000103.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001576427-24-000103.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Megan Clarken departed as Chief Executive Officer at Criteo S.A..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On August 26, 2024, Criteo S.A. (the “Company”) announced that Megan Clarken, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, will retire from the Company after completion of a search process for her successor and a transition period.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576427/000157642724000103/0001576427-24-000103-index.htm

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