---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001612720-26-000055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEXT"
cik: "0001612720"
company_name: "NextDecade Corp"
filed_at: "2026-10-01T20:26:56+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T14:24:56.395722+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NextDecade director Giovanni Oddo resigns effective Sept 29, 2026; Mubadala affiliate NIC holds right to name successor

## Summary
- Giovanni Oddo resigned from NextDecade's Board of Directors effective immediately, per a letter received September 29, 2026.
- Oddo stated his resignation was not due to any disagreements with the Company on operations, policies or practices.
- Oddo had served since May 2022, appointed under the Purchaser Rights Agreement with Nineteenth Investment Company LLC (NIC), a Mubadala Investment Company affiliate, dated October 28, 2019.
- Under the Purchaser Rights Agreement, NIC has the right to designate a replacement director for Oddo; no successor has been named in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001612720-26-000055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEXT
- cik: 0001612720
- company_name: NextDecade Corp
- filed_at: 2026-10-01T20:26:56+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612720/000161272026000055/0001612720-26-000055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612720/000161272026000055/next-20260929.htm

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