---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-017424"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "REI"
cik: "0001384195"
company_name: "RING ENERGY, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T15:58:34.276403+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ring Energy board: Roesener retires, Tharp appointed director

## Summary
- Regina Roesener retiring from board effective April 14, 2025; no dispute or disagreement with company.
- Carla Tharp appointed independent director effective April 14, 2025, expected to serve on Audit and NESG committees.
- Tharp is CEO of Apoyar Energy, former VP at APA Corp, with background in M&A and corporate development.
- No family relationships or material transactions between Tharp and the company; compensation per non-employee director plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-017424
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: REI
- cik: 0001384195
- company_name: RING ENERGY, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384195/000162828025017424/0001628280-25-017424-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384195/000162828025017424/rei-20250408.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-017424.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Regina Roesener departed as Director at RING ENERGY, INC..
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Director
  source text: Ms. Regina Roesener notified the board of directors (the “Board”) of Ring Energy, Inc. (the “Company”), that she is retiring from the Board effective as of April 14, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384195/000162828025017424/0001628280-25-017424-index.htm
- Executive change
  Carla Tharp was appointed as Director at RING ENERGY, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board, upon the recommendation of the Nominating, Environmental, Social and Governance Committee of the Board (the “NESG Committee”), appointed Ms. Carla Tharp as a director effective April 14, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384195/000162828025017424/0001628280-25-017424-index.htm

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