---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001753539-22-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKSY"
cik: "0001753539"
company_name: "BlackSky Technology Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T01:30:20.402588+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BlackSky appoints Tracy Ward as Principal Accounting Officer effective August 10, 2022

## Summary
- Tracy Ward, 45, appointed Principal Accounting Officer; previously Controller since April 2019.
- Ward served as VP and PAO of Intersections Inc. (INTX) from 2014 to 2019 and Director of Treasury and Financial Reporting.
- No arrangements or family relationships with directors/executives; standard indemnification agreement entered.
- Ward is a CPA with B.S. and Masters in Accounting from Virginia Tech; earlier roles at Freddie Mac and PwC.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001753539-22-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKSY
- cik: 0001753539
- company_name: BlackSky Technology Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353922000071/0001753539-22-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353922000071/bksy-20220810.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001753539-22-000071.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tracy Ward was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at BlackSky Technology Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On August 10, 2022, BlackSky Technology Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Tracy Ward to serve as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer for the purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1753539/000175353922000071/0001753539-22-000071-index.htm

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