---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000745732-25-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROST"
cik: "0000745732"
company_name: "ROSS STORES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:04:27.028988+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ross Stores appoints William Sheehan as CFO, replacing retiring Adam Orvos effective Oct 1

## Summary
- Adam Orvos retires as CFO on Sep 30, 2025; William Sheehan succeeds as EVP and CFO on Oct 1, 2025.
- Sheehan, 56, had been Deputy CFO since Feb 2025; joined Ross in 2006 as VP, Corporate Controller.
- New employment agreement: base salary $775k, target bonus 75% of salary, restricted stock award $1.2M vesting Sep 14, 2029.
- Sheehan's initial term runs through March 31, 2029, renewable by mutual agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000745732-25-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROST
- cik: 0000745732
- company_name: ROSS STORES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573225000049/0000745732-25-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/745732/000074573225000049/rost-20250828.htm

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