---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000829224-25-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBUX"
cik: "0000829224"
company_name: "STARBUCKS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:39:51.397584+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Starbucks appoints Mike Grams as COO; CLO Brad Lerman to depart

## Summary
- Mike Grams named COO effective June 4, 2025; oversees global coffeehouse development and supply chain.
- Grams' base salary increased to $900k (from $700k); bonus target raised to 125% of base salary.
- Brad Lerman to step down as evp, chief legal officer; will assist search and stay until successor in place.
- Organizational changes: Global Coffee & Sustainability merged under Global Brand; CTO now reports to CFO.
- CEO Brian Niccol cites need to accelerate 'Back to Starbucks' turnaround with these moves.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000829224-25-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBUX
- cik: 0000829224
- company_name: STARBUCKS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000036/0000829224-25-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000036/sbux-20250604.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000829224-25-000036
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000829224-25-000036.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000829224-25-000036.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brad Lerman departed as evp, chief legal officer at STARBUCKS CORP.
  - Action: would no longer serve
  - Role: evp, chief legal officer
  source text: On June 4, 2025, the Company also announced that Brad Lerman would no longer serve as the Company’s evp, chief legal officer, as of a date to be determined.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000036/0000829224-25-000036-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mike Grams was appointed as chief operating officer at STARBUCKS CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: chief operating officer
  source text: On June 4, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Starbucks Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Mike Grams, currently evp, North America chief coffeehouse officer, to the position of chief operating officer (“coo”), a reinstated position in the Company’s executive leadership team, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/000082922425000036/0000829224-25-000036-index.htm

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