---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000829224-25-000020"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "SBUX"
cik: "0000829224"
company_name: "STARBUCKS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T04:38:00.905373+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Starbucks appoints Cathy Smith as CFO effective March 24; interim CFO named

## Summary
- Cathy R. Smith becomes EVP, CFO effective March 24, 2025; will also serve as principal financial and accounting officer.
- Rachel Ruggeri ceased as CFO on March 7; will support transition through March 28.
- Val Bauduin, SVP North America Finance, appointed interim CFO from March 7 until Smith's start date; compensation unchanged.
- Bauduin joined Starbucks in 2024; previously CFO at Marriott and partner at Deloitte.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000829224-25-000020
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: SBUX
- cik: 0000829224
- company_name: STARBUCKS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000020/0000829224-25-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000020/sbux-20250304.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rachel Ruggeri departed as executive vice president, chief financial officer at STARBUCKS CORP.
  - Action: ceased
  - Role: executive vice president, chief financial officer
  source text: and that Ms. Ruggeri will cease serving in such roles, effective as of March 7, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000020/0000829224-25-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Cathy R. Smith was appointed as executive vice president, chief financial officer at STARBUCKS CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: executive vice president, chief financial officer
  source text: On March 7, 2025, the Board determined that Ms. Smith will be appointed as executive vice president, chief financial officer and designated as the Company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, effective, in each case, as of her anticipated start date of March 24, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000020/0000829224-25-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Val Bauduin was appointed as interim chief financial officer at STARBUCKS CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim chief financial officer
  source text: effective March 7, 2025, the Board appointed Val Bauduin, senior vice president, North America Finance of the Company, as interim chief financial officer and designated Mr. Bauduin as the Company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, in each case, until the Effective Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000020/0000829224-25-000020-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.