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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Simply Good Foods (SMPL)

Simply Good Foods CFO Shaun Mara to retire July 3; Christopher Bealer named successor

Neutral Impact 4 of 5 leadership Written later

CFO Shaun P. Mara notified the company on January 27, 2025, that he will retire effective July 3, 2025, and will remain CFO until then. The company hired Christopher J. Bealer, whose most recent executive role was EVP Corporate Controller at Reckitt, as Senior Vice President of Finance effective April 1, 2025, and he is expected to succeed Mara as CFO on July 3. The planned transition gives shareholders a roughly three-month overlap period before the handover.

Key points

  • Shaun P. Mara will retire as CFO effective July 3, 2025, and resign from all company positions then.
  • Christopher J. Bealer starts as Senior Vice President of Finance on April 1, 2025, and is expected to become CFO on July 3, 2025.
  • Bealer has almost 23 years of consumer packaged goods experience and most recently led a global team of over 600 employees at Reckitt.
  • At the January 23, 2025 annual meeting, all 11 director nominees were elected, and Deloitte & Touche LLP was ratified as auditor with 94,462,324 votes for.

The filing

CompanySimply Good Foods (SMPL)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECJan 28, 2025, 4:13 PM ET
Accession number0001104659-25-006698

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change5.07 Shareholder Vote Results

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI on Nov 8, 2026, 6:59 AM ET, from this filing only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on January 28, 2025.

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