---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-23-000131"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VIVK"
cik: "0001450704"
company_name: "Vivakor, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T17:02:40.255933+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vivakor director Trent Staggs resigns from Board and committees, effective Jan 4, 2023

## Summary
- Trent Staggs resigned from the Board, Audit Committee, and as chair of Compensation and Nominating/Governance Committees.
- Resignation effective immediately; not due to any dispute or disagreement with the Company or Board.
- No replacement named; Board size and committee composition to be addressed subsequently.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-23-000131
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VIVK
- cik: 0001450704
- company_name: Vivakor, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1450704/000168316823000131/0001683168-23-000131-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1450704/000168316823000131/vivakor_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-23-000131
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-23-000131.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-23-000131.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Trent Staggs resigned as Director at Vivakor, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 4, 2023, Trent Staggs advised the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Vivakor, Inc. (the “Company”) of his resignation, effective immediately, from the Board and from his positions as a member of the Audit Committee and as chairman of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1450704/000168316823000131/0001683168-23-000131-index.htm

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