---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-038536"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MKTW"
cik: "0001805651"
company_name: "MARKETWISE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T18:05:22.941956+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MarketWise appoints CFO Mickels as COO, combined Chief Operating and Financial Officer role effective July 31, 2025

## Summary
- Erik Mickels, current CFO since August 2023, adds COO duties with no change in compensation.
- Mickels brings 25+ years experience; previously Group CFO at Trilogy International Partners.
- No family relationships or arrangements with other officers/directors; no 404(a) transactions.
- Press release issued August 6, 2025 announcing the appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-038536
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MKTW
- cik: 0001805651
- company_name: MARKETWISE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828025038536/0001628280-25-038536-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828025038536/mktw-20250731.htm

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