---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000883569-25-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FOSL"
cik: "0000883569"
company_name: "Fossil Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T04:07:31.242106+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fossil Group appoints Pamela Edwards and Wendy Schoppert to Board of Directors, effective May 16, 2025

## Summary
- Board expands to ten members, including nine independent directors.
- Both appointees will serve on the Audit Committee.
- Each receives standard non-employee director compensation: $140,000 annual cash retainer and 25,000 RSUs.
- Edwards brings CFO experience from Citi Trends and L Brands; Schoppert was CFO/CIO at Sleep Number.
- Chairman cites their expertise as instrumental to advancing Fossil's turnaround plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000883569-25-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FOSL
- cik: 0000883569
- company_name: Fossil Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883569/000088356925000035/0000883569-25-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883569/000088356925000035/fosl-20250514.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000883569-25-000035
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000883569-25-000035.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000883569-25-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pamela Edwards was appointed as Director at Fossil Group, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 14, 2025, the Company announced that Pamela Edwards and Wendy Schoppert have been appointed to the Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective May 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883569/000088356925000035/0000883569-25-000035-index.htm
- Executive change
  Wendy Schoppert was appointed as Director at Fossil Group, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 14, 2025, the Company announced that Pamela Edwards and Wendy Schoppert have been appointed to the Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective May 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883569/000088356925000035/0000883569-25-000035-index.htm

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