---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001041061-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUM"
cik: "0001041061"
company_name: "YUM BRANDS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T00:47:34.598625+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KFC CEO Sabir Sami to resign March 1; Scott Mezvinsky named successor

## Summary
- Sabir Sami will step down as CEO of KFC division effective March 1, 2025, and provide advisory services through March 1, 2026.
- Scott Mezvinsky, currently President of Taco Bell North America and International, appointed CEO of KFC effective March 1, 2025.
- Change is a planned succession; Mezvinsky moves from Taco Bell to lead KFC.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001041061-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUM
- cik: 0001041061
- company_name: YUM BRANDS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000004/0001041061-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000004/yum-20250110.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001041061-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001041061-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001041061-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Scott Mezvinsky was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of KFC at YUM BRANDS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer of KFC
  source text: Scott Mezvinsky, currently the President of Taco Bell North America and International of the Taco Bell Division of the Company will become Chief Executive Officer of KFC on March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000004/0001041061-25-000004-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sabir Sami departed as Chief Executive Officer of the KFC Division at YUM BRANDS INC.
  - Action: resign
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer of the KFC Division
  source text: Mr. Sabir Sami, Chief Executive Officer of the KFC Division (“KFC”) of Yum! Brands, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company that he plans to resign as Chief Executive Officer of KFC on March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106125000004/0001041061-25-000004-index.htm

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