---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001874178-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RIVN"
cik: "0001874178"
company_name: "Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE"
filed_at: "2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T04:14:17.038748+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rivian appoints Sreela Venkataratnam as Chief Accounting Officer effective March 10, 2025

## Summary
- Venkataratnam will report to CFO Claire McDonough and serve as principal accounting officer.
- Compensation includes $425,000 base salary, 50% target bonus, and $6M RSU grant vesting quarterly over 4 years.
- Also receives $20,000 signing bonus with clawback if leaving within one year; severance includes 12-month base salary and COBRA.
- Venkataratnam previously spent 11 years at Tesla, most recently as VP of Finance and Business Operations.
- She replaces Claire McDonough, who served as interim principal accounting officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001874178-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RIVN
- cik: 0001874178
- company_name: Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE
- filed_at: 2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000009/0001874178-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000009/rivn-20250303.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001874178-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Claire McDonough changed role as Principal Accounting Officer (Interim) at Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE.
  - Action: replaced
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer (Interim)
  source text: Ms. Venkataratnam has also been designated by the Board as the Company’s principal accounting officer, replacing Ms. McDonough, who was serving in the role on an interim basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000009/0001874178-25-000009-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sreela Venkataratnam was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 3, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Rivian Automotive, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Sreela Venkataratnam as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, effective March 10, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000009/0001874178-25-000009-index.htm

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