Company: WKC
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-163448
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Company: WORLD KINECT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02.      Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers  

Effective July 17, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “ Board”) of World Kinect Corporation (the “ Company”) appointed Gregory F. Piper as a director of the Company. Mr. Piper will serve as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board. Mr. Piper has more than 35 years of successful operational, M& A and business development experience in the global energy, commodity and agriculture sectors. A copy of the Company’s press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Piper is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

Mr. Piper will receive the standard non-employeedirector compensation for serving on the Board and its committees, including restricted stock units representing a pro-ratedportion of a $175,000 annual equity grant for service on the Board, which will vest on the earlier of the day prior to the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders or the one-yearanniversary of the grant date. The Company also entered into a director indemnification agreement with Mr. Piper, the form of which was previously filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form8-Kfiled with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2025.

There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Piper and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Piper was selected as a director of the Company. Mr. Piper is also not a party to any transaction that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.