---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-132394"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLCE"
cik: "0001041859"
company_name: "Childrens Place, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T15:34:42.389656+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Children's Place appoints Katherine Kountze to Board and Audit Committee

## Summary
- Katherine Kountze appointed independent director effective November 1, 2021; will serve until 2022 annual meeting.
- She also joins the Audit Committee; brings cybersecurity and IT expertise as former CIO of Eversource Energy and DentaQuest.
- Received one-time grant of 380 time-based RSUs under the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan, vesting in one year.
- Kountze currently serves on the board and audit committee of Bombardier Recreational Products.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-132394
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLCE
- cik: 0001041859
- company_name: Childrens Place, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041859/000110465921132394/0001104659-21-132394-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041859/000110465921132394/tm2131501d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-132394.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Katherine Kountze was appointed as Director at Childrens Place, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On November 1, 2021, the Company appointed Katherine Kountze to the Company’s Board of Directors and to the Audit Committee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041859/000110465921132394/0001104659-21-132394-index.htm

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