---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001788882-22-000021"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROOT"
cik: "0001788882"
company_name: "Root, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T16:57:17.723986+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Root director Elliot Geidt resigns from board, effective May 9, 2022

## Summary
- Elliot Geidt, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures, resigned from board and Audit, Risk and Finance Committee.
- Geidt had served on Root's board since 2018; resignation is immediate.
- Resignation to allow Geidt to focus on other Redpoint portfolio investments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001788882-22-000021
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROOT
- cik: 0001788882
- company_name: Root, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1788882/000178888222000021/0001788882-22-000021-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1788882/000178888222000021/root-20220509.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001788882-22-000021
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001788882-22-000021.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001788882-22-000021.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Elliot Geidt resigned as Director at Root, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 9, 2022, Elliot Geidt informed Root, Inc. (the "Company") of his intention to resign from the Company's board of directors, and its Audit, Risk and Finance Committee on which he had served as a member, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1788882/000178888222000021/0001788882-22-000021-index.htm

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