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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001874178-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RIVN"
cik: "0001874178"
company_name: "Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE"
filed_at: "2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T10:38:55.410278+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rivian expands board, elects Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez as Class II director

## Summary
- Board size increased; Aidan Gomez elected Class II director effective April 21, 2025.
- Gomez is CEO, Co-Founder, and board member of Cohere Inc., an enterprise AI company.
- Previously a researcher at Google on deep learning project Google Brain; holds PhD from Oxford.
- Will participate in Rivian's Non-Employee Director Compensation Program.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001874178-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RIVN
- cik: 0001874178
- company_name: Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE
- filed_at: 2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000018/0001874178-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000018/rivn-20250421.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001874178-25-000018
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001874178-25-000018.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001874178-25-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Aidan Gomez was elected as Class II director at Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class II director
  source text: On April 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Rivian Automotive, Inc. (the "Company") increased the size of the Board and elected Aidan Gomez to serve as a Class II director of the Company with a term expiring at the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000018/0001874178-25-000018-index.htm

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