---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001753926-25-000153"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001563922"
company_name: "Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co LLC"
filed_at: "2025-01-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T06:52:45.230275+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Greenbacker CFO Christopher Smith resigns; Carl Weatherley-White appointed interim CFO

## Summary
- CFO Christopher Smith resigns effective Jan 28, 2025; receives $366,666 severance under separation agreement.
- Carl Weatherley-White, Head of Capital Markets, named interim CFO effective Jan 28, 2025.
- Weatherley-White joined Greenbacker in Feb 2024; previously CEO/CFO at VivoPower and MD at Barclays.
- Michael Cunningham remains as Principal Accounting Officer and acting Principal Financial Officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001753926-25-000153
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001563922
- company_name: Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co LLC
- filed_at: 2025-01-29T23:59:59+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/1563922/000175392625000153/0001753926-25-000153-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1563922/000175392625000153/g084673_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001753926-25-000153
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001753926-25-000153.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001753926-25-000153.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher Smith resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co LLC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On January 29, 2025, Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company LLC (the “Company”) announced that its board of directors (the “Board”) exercised its discretion to approve a separation agreement (the “Separation Agreement”) with Mr. Christopher Smith as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1563922/000175392625000153/0001753926-25-000153-index.htm
- Executive change
  Carl Weatherley-White was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co LLC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: In addition, on January 28 , 2025, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “ Board ”) appointed the Company’s Head of Capital Markets, Mr. Carl Weatherley-White, age 64, as the Company’s interim Chief Financial Officer (“ Interim CFO ”), effective January 28, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1563922/000175392625000153/0001753926-25-000153-index.htm

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