---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001856314-25-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YOU"
cik: "0001856314"
company_name: "Clear Secure, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T03:54:12.499986+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CLEAR Q4 revenue $206.3M (+20.7%); co-founder/President/CFO Ken Cornick steps down, Barkin named President, Hsu CFO

## Summary
- Revenue of $206.3M up 20.7% YoY; full-year revenue $770.5M up 25.6%.
- Q4 net income $116.6M includes $74.8M tax benefit; adjusted EBITDA $50.5M.
- Declared Q1'25 special dividend $0.27 and regular dividend $0.125; repurchased 13.8M shares in FY24.
- Co-founder Ken Cornick resigns as President/CFO effective Mar 31; will serve as CFO until successor starts, then advisor to Jul 2026.
- Michael Barkin (ex-Vail Resorts CFO) appointed President; Jen Hsu (ex-Chewy) appointed CFO, both effective Mar 31, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001856314-25-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YOU
- cik: 0001856314
- company_name: Clear Secure, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856314/000185631425000006/0001856314-25-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856314/000185631425000006/you-20250220.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001856314-25-000006
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001856314-25-000006.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Barkin was appointed as President at Clear Secure, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President
  source text: the Board approved the appointment of Michael Barkin as President of the Company, effective March 31, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856314/000185631425000006/0001856314-25-000006-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kenneth Cornick departed as Director at Clear Secure, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. Cornick informed the Board that he will not stand for re-election as a director when his term expires at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856314/000185631425000006/0001856314-25-000006-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kenneth Cornick resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Clear Secure, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: he will continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer until the commencement of his successor’s employment
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856314/000185631425000006/0001856314-25-000006-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jennifer Hsu was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Clear Secure, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Jennifer Hsu as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective March 31, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1856314/000185631425000006/0001856314-25-000006-index.htm

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