---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001671933-24-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TTD"
cik: "0001671933"
company_name: "Trade Desk, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T22:36:24.431665+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# The Trade Desk appoints Samantha Jacobson to board, promotes Sims and Dederick

## Summary
- Board appointed Samantha Jacobson (Chief Strategy Officer) as Class II director, filling vacancy from David Pickles' resignation.
- Tim Sims promoted to Chief Commercial Officer (new role); Jed Dederick promoted to Chief Revenue Officer.
- Both report to CEO Jeff Green; Sims had been CRO, Dederick was Chief Client Officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001671933-24-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TTD
- cik: 0001671933
- company_name: Trade Desk, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671933/000167193324000005/0001671933-24-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671933/000167193324000005/ttd-20240117.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001671933-24-000005.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Samantha Jacobson was appointed as Director at Trade Desk, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective January 17, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Trade Desk, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Samantha Jacobson, the Company’s Chief Strategy Officer, to the Board as a Class II director to serve for a term expiring at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until her successor is duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671933/000167193324000005/0001671933-24-000005-index.htm

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