---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-042425"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZVIA"
cik: "0001854139"
company_name: "Zevia PBC"
filed_at: "2023-08-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T12:43:52.590545+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zevia CFO Denise Beckles resigns; Florence Neubauer named interim CFO

## Summary
- CFO Denise Beckles resigns effective September 4, 2023 to pursue another opportunity; permanent replacement search underway.
- Interim CFO Florence Neubauer appointed; previously SVP, FP&A; has 25+ years consumer products finance experience.
- Neubauer compensation: $384k base salary, 50% target bonus, $140k retention bonus (two $70k installments).
- Severance agreement: 12 months base salary on qualifying termination; enhanced if within 18 months post-change-of-control.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-042425
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZVIA
- cik: 0001854139
- company_name: Zevia PBC
- filed_at: 2023-08-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017023042425/0000950170-23-042425-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017023042425/zvia-20230810.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-042425
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-042425.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-042425.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Florence Neubauer was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Zevia PBC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 14, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), appointed Florence Neubauer, 51, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”), to serve as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017023042425/0000950170-23-042425-index.htm
- Executive change
  Denise D. Beckles resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Zevia PBC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 10, 2023, Denise D. Beckles, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, notified the Company of her resignation, effective September 4, 2023 to pursue another opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854139/000095017023042425/0000950170-23-042425-index.htm

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