---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000110471-22-000088"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WWW"
cik: "0000110471"
company_name: "WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2022-12-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T23:14:17.171303+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blake Krueger transitions from Executive Chairman to non-employee Chairman effective Jan 1, 2023

## Summary
- Krueger will no longer be an employee; receives $145K annual cash director fee plus $255K in RSUs.
- Effective date: January 1, 2023; Board approved transition on December 19, 2022.
- Krueger moves from Executive Chairman to Chairman of the Board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000110471-22-000088
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WWW
- cik: 0000110471
- company_name: WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2022-12-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110471/000011047122000088/0000110471-22-000088-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110471/000011047122000088/www-20221219.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000110471-22-000088
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000110471-22-000088.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000110471-22-000088.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Blake Krueger changed role as Chairman of the Board at WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/.
  - Action: approved the transition
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: On December 19, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the transition of Blake Krueger from the position of Executive Chairman to the position of Chairman of the Board, effective as of January 1, 2023, at which time Mr. Krueger will no longer be an employee of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110471/000011047122000088/0000110471-22-000088-index.htm

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