---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001836833-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PL"
cik: "0001836833"
company_name: "Planet Labs PBC"
filed_at: "2025-01-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T00:15:49.080578+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gen. John W. Raymond elected to Planet Labs board as Class II director via written consent

## Summary
- Elected by written consent representing ~61% of voting power (21.2M Class B shares) to fill vacancy.
- Effective 40 days after Notice of Internet Availability sent; serves until 2026 annual meeting.
- Former Chief of Space Operations, U.S. Space Force; now Senior Managing Director at Cerberus.
- Will receive standard non-management director fees and enter indemnification agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001836833-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PL
- cik: 0001836833
- company_name: Planet Labs PBC
- filed_at: 2025-01-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1836833/000183683325000009/0001836833-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1836833/000183683325000009/pl-20250110.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001836833-25-000009
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001836833-25-000009.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001836833-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John W. Raymond was elected as Class II Director at Planet Labs PBC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On January 10, 2025, the stockholders of Planet Labs PBC (the “Company”) acted by written consent (the “Written Consent”) to elect General John W. Raymond to fill an existing vacancy on the Company’s board of directors as a Class II director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1836833/000183683325000009/0001836833-25-000009-index.htm

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