---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-011748"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZVIA"
cik: "0001854139"
company_name: "Zevia PBC"
filed_at: "2022-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T01:24:03.418846+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zevia CEO Paddy Spence steps down; President Amy Taylor to become CEO effective Aug 1, 2022

## Summary
- Paddy Spence steps down as CEO effective Aug 1, 2022; remains Non-Executive Chair of the Board.
- Amy Taylor, currently President and Board member, appointed CEO effective Aug 1, 2022; continues as President.
- Taylor's new compensation: $600k base salary, target annual bonus 100% of base, $200k retention bonus, 463,745 stock options (half at market price, half at $7.50 premium).
- Taylor's severance: 12-18 months of base plus target bonus on qualifying termination; enhanced change-in-control severance of 200% base plus target bonus.
- Spence acquired Zevia in 2010; net sales grew at 31% CAGR to over 35 flavors and 31,000+ retail outlets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-011748
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZVIA
- cik: 0001854139
- company_name: Zevia PBC
- filed_at: 2022-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017022011748/0000950170-22-011748-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017022011748/zvia-20220615.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Amy Taylor was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Zevia PBC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board appointed Amy Taylor, the Company's current President and a member of the Board, to serve as CEO, effective August 1, 2022
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017022011748/0000950170-22-011748-index.htm
- Executive change
  Padraic "Paddy" Spence departed as Chief Executive Officer at Zevia PBC.
  - Action: step down
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: announced that Padraic "Paddy" Spence, Chair of the Board of Directors (the "Board") and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of the Company, will step down as CEO effective August 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017022011748/0000950170-22-011748-index.htm

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