---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-003253"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000850209"
company_name: "FOOT LOCKER, INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T02:32:19.374596+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Foot Locker adds ex-Gap CEO Syngal and Ace Hardware CEO Venhuizen to board

## Summary
- Board expanded to 11 directors; Syngal and Venhuizen elected effective Jan. 12, 2025.
- Syngal, former President & CEO of Gap Inc., also serves on Tanger Inc. board.
- Venhuizen has been President & CEO of Ace Hardware Corp. for 12 years.
- Director Guillermo Marmol to retire at 2025 annual meeting under age policy.
- Syngal joins Audit and Compensation Committees; Venhuizen joins Audit and Tech/Digital.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-003253
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000850209
- company_name: FOOT LOCKER, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/850209/000110465925003253/0001104659-25-003253-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/850209/000110465925003253/tm253225d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-003253
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-003253.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-003253.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Venhuizen was elected as Director at FOOT LOCKER, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 12, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Foot Locker, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the total number of directors to 11 and elected Sonia Syngal and John Venhuizen as members of the Board, effective immediately, to serve until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/850209/000110465925003253/0001104659-25-003253-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sonia Syngal was elected as Director at FOOT LOCKER, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 12, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Foot Locker, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the total number of directors to 11 and elected Sonia Syngal and John Venhuizen as members of the Board, effective immediately, to serve until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/850209/000110465925003253/0001104659-25-003253-index.htm

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