---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-001336"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TREE"
cik: "0001434621"
company_name: "LendingTree, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T13:41:05.244025+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# LendingTree CTO Scott Totman transitions to lead AI Lab; remains eligible for severance

## Summary
- Scott Totman to transition to new role guiding AI efforts in the AI Lab effective March 7, 2025.
- Totman continues eligible for payments and benefits under the Executive Severance Pay Plan.
- No replacement named for Totman's prior role; this is a role change rather than departure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-001336
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TREE
- cik: 0001434621
- company_name: LendingTree, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434621/000168316825001336/0001683168-25-001336-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434621/000168316825001336/lendingtree_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-001336
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-001336.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-001336.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Scott Totman changed role as other_named_officer at LendingTree, Inc..
  - Action: transitioned
  source text: On February 26, 2025, the Board of Directors and Scott Totman agreed that Mr. Totman will transition to a new role on March 7, 2025 guiding the Company’s AI efforts in the Company’s AI Lab.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434621/000168316825001336/0001683168-25-001336-index.htm

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