---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001868941-22-000084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FLNC"
cik: "0001868941"
company_name: "Fluence Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T18:53:48.099204+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fluence Energy appoints Manavendra Sial as CFO, replacing Dennis Fehr effective Sept 15

## Summary
- Manavendra Sial appointed SVP and CFO effective Sept 15, 2022; outgoing CFO Dennis Fehr remains non-executive through Oct 15.
- Sial joins from SunPower (SPWR) where he was EVP and CFO; previously CFO at VECTRA and finance roles at SunEdison and GE.
- Compensation: base salary $500k, target bonus 75%, sign-on cash bonus $500k, and $2.6M in RSUs vesting over 3 years.
- Retention payment of $1.2M if involuntarily terminated for reasons other than cause within first year.
- Subject to stock ownership policy: must hold 2x salary in shares within 5 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001868941-22-000084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FLNC
- cik: 0001868941
- company_name: Fluence Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1868941/000186894122000084/0001868941-22-000084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1868941/000186894122000084/flnc-20220826.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Manavendra Sial was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Fluence Energy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: appointed Manavendra (Manu) Sial, 46, as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and as the Company’s principal financial officer, to replace Dennis Fehr, effective as of 12:00 a.m. on September 15, 2022
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1868941/000186894122000084/0001868941-22-000084-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dennis Fehr departed as Chief Financial Officer at Fluence Energy, Inc..
  - Action: replaced
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Following the Effective Time, Mr. Fehr is expected to remain with the Company in a non-executive capacity until October 15, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1868941/000186894122000084/0001868941-22-000084-index.htm

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