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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-019701"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TTD"
cik: "0001671933"
company_name: "Trade Desk, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T07:35:19.303326+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trade Desk Chief Data Officer Michelle Hulst to step down July 29, 2022

## Summary
- Michelle Hulst, Chief Data Officer, agreed to step down effective July 29, 2022.
- Departure treated as termination without cause under employment agreement dated January 11, 2021.
- Ms. Hulst will receive severance benefits as specified in that agreement for a no-cause termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-019701
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TTD
- cik: 0001671933
- company_name: Trade Desk, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671933/000162828022019701/0001628280-22-019701-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671933/000162828022019701/ttd-20220726.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-019701.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-019701.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michelle Hulst departed as Chief Data Officer at Trade Desk, Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Data Officer
  source text: On July 26, 2022 , The Trade Desk, Inc. (the “Company”) and Michelle Hulst, the Company’s Chief Data Officer, agreed that Ms. Hulst will step down from her current position effective as of July 29, 2022 .
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671933/000162828022019701/0001628280-22-019701-index.htm

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