mktw-20231110


Delaware	001-39405	87-1767914
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1125 N. Charles St.
	Baltimore, Maryland 21201
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

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Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share

MKTW

The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

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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.

MarketWise, Inc. (the “Company” or “MarketWise”) has appointed Charles N. Curlett, Jr. to serve as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective as of November 10, 2023.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Curlett, age 52, served as Founder and Managing Member of Curlett LLC since April 2022, where he served as outside General Counsel to Porter & Company, LLC, an investment research and publishing company founded in 2022 by F. Porter Stansberry, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. Previously, Mr. Curlett served as a Partner and Vice Chair of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice Group at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, LLP from January 2019 until April 2022, and as Managing Partner of Levin & Curlett LLC from October 2011 until December 2018. Mr. Curlett holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, an LL.M. from Leiden University in the Netherlands, and a B.A. in English from Johns Hopkins University.

In connection with his appointment, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board (the “Committee”) approved a letter agreement with Mr. Curlett providing for the terms of his employment as Chief Operating Officer (the “Curlett Letter Agreement”). Under the Curlett Letter Agreement, Mr. Curlett’s annual base salary will be $350,000. Beginning in 2024, Mr. Curlett will also be eligible to receive an annual discretionary incentive bonus composed of cash and/or equity awards granted under the MarketWise, Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan (or any successor thereto), with such annual target incentives as may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.

The foregoing description of the applicable terms and conditions of the Curlett Letter Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Curlett Letter Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.


Exhibit No.						Description

10.1						Letter Agreement, dated November 10, 2023, by and between the Company and Chad Curlett.
104						Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


	MarketWise, Inc.

Date: November 16, 2023	By:	/s/ Erik Mickels
	Name:	Erik Mickels
	Title:	Chief Financial Officer