---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001820302-24-000108"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKKT"
cik: "0001820302"
company_name: "Bakkt, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-07-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T21:12:49.122772+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bakkt appoints Joe Henderson as Chief Accounting Officer effective July 8, 2024

## Summary
- Joe Henderson, 53, appointed VP, CAO and Principal Accounting Officer effective July 8, 2024.
- Previously Director, Technical Accounting & SEC Reporting at Azenta (2023) and BioXcel Therapeutics (2022-2023).
- Annual base salary of $245,000; one-time RSU award of ~$14,000 vesting over three years.
- No arrangements with any other person; no family relationships with directors or executives.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001820302-24-000108
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKKT
- cik: 0001820302
- company_name: Bakkt, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-07-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820302/000182030224000108/0001820302-24-000108-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820302/000182030224000108/bakkt-20240708.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001820302-24-000108
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001820302-24-000108.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001820302-24-000108.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joe Henderson was appointed as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at Bakkt, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Joe Henderson, 53, as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of the Company, effective July 8, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820302/000182030224000108/0001820302-24-000108-index.htm

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