---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-015154"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEXT"
cik: "0001612720"
company_name: "NextDecade Corp"
filed_at: "2025-03-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T03:55:05.646044+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NextDecade principal accounting officer Eric Garcia departs; Luke Boylston named interim

## Summary
- Effective March 24, 2025, Eric Garcia's employment terminated; he is no longer principal accounting officer.
- Departure not related to any issues or disagreements with the Company regarding financial disclosures or practices.
- Luke Boylston, 36, appointed interim principal accounting officer; search for a permanent Chief Accounting Officer underway.
- Boylston joined NextDecade in October 2023 as Senior Director and Controller; prior roles include CAO of Battle Motors and Controller at Tellurian.
- Boylston is a CPA in Texas with a BBA from Texas Tech, MS in Accountancy from U of Houston, and MBA from Rice.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-015154
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEXT
- cik: 0001612720
- company_name: NextDecade Corp
- filed_at: 2025-03-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612720/000162828025015154/0001628280-25-015154-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612720/000162828025015154/next-20250321.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015154.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric Garcia was terminated as principal accounting officer at NextDecade Corp.
  - Action: terminated
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Effective March 24, 2025, Eric Garcia’s employment with NextDecade Corporation (the “Company”) terminated and as of such date he no longer served as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612720/000162828025015154/0001628280-25-015154-index.htm
- Executive change
  Luke Boylston was appointed as interim principal accounting officer at NextDecade Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim principal accounting officer
  source text: Luke Boylston, age 36, will serve as the Company’s interim principal accounting officer while the Company is conducting its search for a new Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612720/000162828025015154/0001628280-25-015154-index.htm

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