---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-148701"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KRT"
cik: "0001758021"
company_name: "Karat Packaging Inc."
filed_at: "2021-12-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T02:08:14.462827+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Karat Packaging appoints COO Joanne Wang to board; Marvin Cheng resigns as director but remains VP/Secretary

## Summary
- Joanne Wang, current COO, appointed to Board effective Dec 10, 2021, filling vacancy.
- Marvin Cheng resigned as director same date, continues as VP-Manufacturing and Secretary.
- Wang joined Karat in 2003, became COO in Dec 2018; no reportable transactions with company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-148701
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KRT
- cik: 0001758021
- company_name: Karat Packaging Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-12-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758021/000110465921148701/0001104659-21-148701-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758021/000110465921148701/tm2135180d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-148701
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-148701.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-148701.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joanne Wang was appointed as director at Karat Packaging Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: appointed Joanne Wang, the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, a director of the Company effective December 10, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758021/000110465921148701/0001104659-21-148701-index.htm
- Executive change
  Marvin Cheng resigned as director at Karat Packaging Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: director
  source text: resignation of Marvin Cheng as a director, effective December 10, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1758021/000110465921148701/0001104659-21-148701-index.htm

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