---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-073951"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHAK"
cik: "0001620533"
company_name: "Shake Shack Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T02:51:50.088544+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shake Shack appoints Stephanie Sentell as COO effective July 1, 2024

## Summary
- Stephanie Sentell appointed COO effective July 1, 2024; reports to CEO Robert Lynch.
- Annual base salary of $550,000; target bonus opportunity of 75% of salary with potential payout up to 200%.
- Signing cash award of $750,000 plus signing restricted stock units valued at $750,000 vesting over 4 years.
- Employment term of 3 years, auto-renewing annual; severance includes 12 months base salary and COBRA.
- Sentell previously SVP of Company Operations at Inspire Brands; brings over 11 years at Dairy Queen.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-073951
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHAK
- cik: 0001620533
- company_name: Shake Shack Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465924073951/0001104659-24-073951-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465924073951/tm2417707d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-073951
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-073951.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-073951.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephanie Sentell was appointed as Chief Operations Officer at Shake Shack Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operations Officer
  source text: appointed Stephanie Sentell to serve as its Chief Operations Officer, effective as of July 1, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465924073951/0001104659-24-073951-index.htm

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