---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001819848-24-000496"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JOBY"
cik: "0001819848"
company_name: "Joby Aviation, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T11:39:57.692600+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Joby Aviation CFO Matthew Field resigns; CEO to serve as acting principal financial officer

## Summary
- CFO Matthew Field resigns effective Dec 13, 2024, for personal reasons; no disagreement with the company.
- CEO JoeBen Bevirt will serve as acting principal financial officer; Controller Sergei Novikov as acting principal accounting officer.
- Field will provide advisory services during transition; company will search for a permanent CFO.
- Novikov, age 55, joined in June 2021; previously Sr. Director, Americas Controller at Varian Medical Systems; licensed CPA.
- Finance team to report to CEO and General Counsel Kate DeHoff until a permanent CFO is hired.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001819848-24-000496
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JOBY
- cik: 0001819848
- company_name: Joby Aviation, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819848/000181984824000496/0001819848-24-000496-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819848/000181984824000496/joby-20241201.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sergei Novikov was appointed as acting principal accounting officer and treasurer at Joby Aviation, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: acting principal accounting officer and treasurer
  source text: Following Mr. Field’s resignation, JoeBen Bevirt, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, will serve as its acting principal financial officer, and Sergei Novikov, the Company’s Controller, will serve as its acting principal accounting officer and treasurer, in each case, effective December 13, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819848/000181984824000496/0001819848-24-000496-index.htm
- Executive change
  JoeBen Bevirt was appointed as acting principal financial officer at Joby Aviation, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: acting principal financial officer
  source text: Following Mr. Field’s resignation, JoeBen Bevirt, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, will serve as its acting principal financial officer, and Sergei Novikov, the Company’s Controller, will serve as its acting principal accounting officer and treasurer, in each case, effective December 13, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819848/000181984824000496/0001819848-24-000496-index.htm
- Executive change
  Matthew Field resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Joby Aviation, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On December 1, 2024, Matthew Field, Chief Financial Officer of Joby Aviation, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that he would be resigning, effective December 13, 2024, for personal reasons.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819848/000181984824000496/0001819848-24-000496-index.htm

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