Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Interim Chief Executive Officer

On June 12, 2022, the board of directors (the "Board") of Volta Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), approved the appointment of Vincent T. Cubbage to the position of Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective as of June 13, 2022.

Mr. Cubbage, age 57, most recently served as Director and Co-Chairperson of the Board. He has served on the Board since the closing (the "Closing") of the business combination in August 2021 (the "Business Combination") with the Company's predecessor, Tortoise Acquisition Corp. II ("Tortoise Corp II"), and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tortoise Corp II from July 2020 until the completion of the Business Combination. Mr. Cubbage has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors of TortoiseEcofin Acquisition Corp. III since February 2021. Mr. Cubbage served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tortoise Acquisition Corp. from March 2019 to the completion of its initial business combination with Hyliion Inc. on October 1, 2020, and he continues to serve on the board of directors of Hyliion Holdings Corp. He has served as Managing Director - Private Energy of TortoiseEcofin since January 2019. Mr. Cubbage served as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lightfoot Capital Partners from its formation in 2006 through its wind up in December 2019. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the general partner of Arc Logistics Partners LP (NYSE: ARCX), from October 2013 to the date of its sale in December 2017. Prior to founding Lightfoot Capital, Mr. Cubbage was a Senior Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Banc of America Securities from 1998 to 2006; and prior to that was a Vice President at Salomon Smith Barney where he worked from 1994 to 1998. Mr. Cubbage received an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management and a B.A. from Eastern Washington University.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Cubbage and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Cubbage was appointed to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company. There are no family relationships between Mr. Cubbage and any director or executive officer of the Company, and Mr. Cubbage has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.





Chief Commercial Officer


On June 12, 2022, the Board promoted Brandt Hastings to the position of Chief Commercial Officer of the Company effective as of June 13, 2022.

Mr. Hastings, age 42, most recently served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and he served as the Chief Revenue Officer of the Company from November 2020 until his appointment as Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to joining Volta, Mr. Hastings served as Senior Vice President of iHeartMedia Inc. from April 2014 to October 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Hastings worked at Clear Channel International, a marketing and advertising company, where he served as Vice President from September 2007 to April 2014, Senior Account Executive from 2005 to 2007 and Account Executive from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Hastings holds a bachelor's degree in management and Spanish from Gettysburg College.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Hastings and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Hastings was appointed to serve as Chief Commercial Officer of the Company. There are no family relationships between Mr. Hastings and any director or executive officer of the Company, and Mr. Hastings has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.





Board of Directors


On June 12, 2022 the Board approved the appointment of Katherine J. Savitt to the position of sole Chairperson of the Board.

During his service as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mr. Cubbage will not serve as Co-Chairperson of the Board or as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee or the Audit Committee of the Board. Effective as of June 13, 2022, Bonita C. Stewart was appointed as Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board and as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board.





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Item 8.01. Other Events.


On June 13, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing certain leadership changes. A copy of the press release is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(d) Exhibits.



Exhibit
Number    Description
99.1        Volta Inc. Press Release dated June 13, 2022
104       Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)




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