New Fortress Energy's chief financial officer gave four days of notice, and the filing that says so names no successor and no interim

The resignation took effect on the day it was disclosed.

Christopher S. Guinta told New Fortress Energy on Monday 17 August that he would resign as chief financial officer effective Friday 21 August, and the company filed the Form 8-K saying so at 5 p.m. Eastern that Friday. Four days of notice, and the market learned of it on the last of them. The substantive part of the filing is two sentences, and the second says the company intends to commence a search process, including both internal and external candidates, to identify a new chief financial officer.

There is no third sentence. No successor is named, no interim is designated, no reason is given, and no press release is attached.

The signature

Form 8-K filings are signed by an officer, and the name on this one is Frederick W. Hundt, chief accounting officer.

That is a change from the company's recent practice, and the change has a date. Hundt took the accounting job on 1 July, after his predecessor, Michael Lowe, told the company on 1 June that he would leave. Guinta signed the filing announcing that. Guinta also signed the two before it.

Hundt joined New Fortress in June 2025 as global controller, and the June filing puts him at 48, with earlier roles as corporate controller of GXO Logistics and eleven years in the audit practice at PwC.

The calendar the company is already on

None of what follows is offered by the filing as a reason for anything, and the filing offers none. It is the record the same company has put on the same file this year.

On 1 May, Nasdaq's Listing Qualifications Department told New Fortress that its Class A common stock had closed below a dollar for 30 consecutive trading days and no longer complied with Listing Rule 5450(a)(1). The company disclosed the notice on 7 May. It has an initial compliance period of 180 calendar days, and to get back inside the rule the closing bid price has to be at least $1.00 for at least ten consecutive trading days before 28 October 2026. That filing said the company intended to ask stockholders to approve a reverse split.

They approved it on 17 June, at a ratio of 1-for-50, by 221,585,026 votes to 7,209,986. It came as one of eight charter amendments, and the package that carries it is conditioned on the others and tied to what the company calls the Restructuring Transaction, a term it defines in its proxy statement rather than in the vote itself. Stockholders separately approved issuing shares above the 20 percent threshold that Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d) puts a vote around, again in connection with that transaction.

What the file has and has not had

Friday's document is the company's first Form 8-K since 25 June. In between it filed its quarterly report on 6 August and a Form 3 on 9 July.

That is the whole record on this. Anyone waiting for more will be waiting for the search the company says it is starting.