CFO Colin Yee transition to Senior Advisor
Company: Riot
What the later record shows
Delivered on time · happened March 1, 2026
The proxy confirms Yee became Senior Advisor on March 1, 2026, with a term through January 1, 2028 and a $500,000 fee for the first 12 months. The $2,000,000 RSU grant is not mentioned in any passage.
“Effective March 1, 2026, Mr. Yee transitioned to Senior Advisor.”
2026-04-29 · Riot DEF 14A filed 2026-04-30 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
“Mr. Yee’s annual fee for his services as our Senior Advisor is $500,000, paid in cash, for the 12 months following March 1, 2026”
2026-04-29 · Riot DEF 14A filed 2026-04-30 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Colin Yee stepped down as CFO effective March 1, 2026 and became Senior Advisor through at least January 1, 2028, receiving $500,000 annual base fee for 12 months plus $2,000,000 in service-based restricted stock units
Source (primary)
RIOT 8-K Filings - Riot Platforms, Inc. SEC 8-K - Stock Titan (-, news_article)
View cached copy (2026-09-27)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
Quote: “Effective March 1, 2026, current CFO Colin Yee will step down and become Senior Advisor through at least January 1, 2028, receiving a $500,000 annual base fee for 12 months after the transition, then $20,000 per month, plus $2,000,000 in service-based restricted stock units”
How we checked this
Checked on October 12, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The source is a January 2026 filing announcing a planned transition with these terms. It does not confirm that the transition took place on March 1, 2026, which the claim states in the past tense.
Confirmed in the source:
- Riot announced that CFO Colin Yee would step down effective March 1, 2026
- Riot announced that Colin Yee would become Senior Advisor through at least January 1, 2028
- The announced terms include a $500,000 annual base fee for 12 months after the transition
- The announced terms include $2,000,000 in service-based restricted stock units
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- That Colin Yee actually stepped down and became Senior Advisor on March 1, 2026; the cited January 2, 2026 filing describes a planned future transition, not a completed one
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/RIOT/8-k.html) in full (13,324 characters, retrieved September 27, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms RIOT 8-K Filings - Riot Platforms, Inc. SEC 8-K - Stock Titan
Quote: “Effective March 1, 2026, current CFO Colin Yee will step down and become Senior Advisor through at least January 1, 2028, receiving a $500,000 annual base fee for 12 months after the transition, then $20,000 per month, plus $2,000,000 in service-based restricted stock units”
confirms Riot DEF 14A filed 2026-04-30
Quote: “Effective March 1, 2026, Mr. Yee transitioned to Senior Advisor.”