---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-048361"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHAK"
cik: "0001620533"
company_name: "Shake Shack Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T21:42:30.619206+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shake Shack director Jonathan Sokoloff resigns; board cut to 10 members

## Summary
- Jonathan Sokoloff stepped down from Board and Compensation Committee, effective before 2024 Annual Meeting.
- Previously announced departures of Jenna Lyons and Robert Vivian also effective before the meeting.
- Board size reduced from 13 to 11, then to 10 directors after Sokoloff's resignation.
- Mr. Sokoloff's departure is not due to any dispute or disagreement with the Company.
- Post-departure Board composition: four Class I, three Class II, three Class III directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-048361
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHAK
- cik: 0001620533
- company_name: Shake Shack Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-17T23:59:59+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/1620533/000110465924048361/0001104659-24-048361-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465924048361/tm2412065d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-048361
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-048361.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-048361.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jonathan Sokoloff departed as Director at Shake Shack Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 12, 2024, after more than nine years of service, Jonathan Sokoloff informed the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Shake Shack Inc. (the “Company”) of his intention to step down from the Board of the Company and as a Class II director, effective immediately prior to the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2024 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465924048361/0001104659-24-048361-index.htm

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