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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000912463-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000912463"
company_name: "GUESS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T18:03:25.483198+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Thomas Barrack resigns from Guess board; Christopher Lewis appointed as part of ERSRI settlement

## Summary
- Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. resigned effective Jan 21, 2025; no disagreement with the company.
- Christopher N. Lewis appointed independent director effective Jan 22, 2025, to fill vacancy.
- Lewis previously served as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Edward Jones until March 2023.
- Appointment fulfills ERSRI settlement requirement for new independent director by 2025 annual meeting.
- Lewis will receive $35k/yr retainer, $1,500 meeting fees, and award of 4,914 restricted stock shares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000912463-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000912463
- company_name: GUESS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246325000004/0000912463-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246325000004/ges-20250121.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912463-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912463-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912463-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. resigned as Director at GUESS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 21, 2025, Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Guess?, Inc. (the “Company”) that he has decided to resign from the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246325000004/0000912463-25-000004-index.htm
- Executive change
  Christopher N. Lewis was appointed as Director at GUESS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective January 22, 2025, following the resignation of Mr. Barrack and upon recommendation of the Company’s Nominating and Governance Committee, the Board appointed Christopher N. Lewis as a member of the Board, to hold office until the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders of the Company and until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his earlier resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912463/000091246325000004/0000912463-25-000004-index.htm

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