---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-040476"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EYE"
cik: "0001710155"
company_name: "National Vision Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T03:56:55.717435+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# National Vision appoints Alex Wilkes as CEO effective Aug 1, 2025; Reade Fahs becomes Executive Chairman

## Summary
- Alex Wilkes named CEO effective Aug 1, 2025; joins Board same date.
- Reade Fahs transitions to Executive Chairman; D. Randolph Peeler becomes Lead Independent Director.
- Wilkes' salary increased to $900,000, target bonus to $900,000; receives $1M RSU grant.
- Thomas V. Taylor Jr. will not stand for reelection at 2025 annual meeting; board size reduces to 10 then increases when Wilkes joins.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-040476
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EYE
- cik: 0001710155
- company_name: National Vision Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000110465925040476/0001104659-25-040476-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000110465925040476/tm2513389d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-040476.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Reade Fahs changed role as Executive Chairman at National Vision Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: assumed
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Mr. Fahs will assume the role of Executive Chairman.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000110465925040476/0001104659-25-040476-index.htm
- Executive change
  Alex Wilkes was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at National Vision Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Under this plan, effective August 1, 2025, Alex Wilkes will succeed Reade Fahs as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and will be appointed to the Company’s Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000110465925040476/0001104659-25-040476-index.htm
- Executive change
  Thomas V. Taylor, Jr. departed as Director at National Vision Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for reelection
  - Role: Director
  source text: Additionally, Thomas V. Taylor, Jr., who joined the Board in 2018, will not stand for reelection at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) and will be departing as a director immediately following the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000110465925040476/0001104659-25-040476-index.htm
- Executive change
  D. Randolph Peeler changed role as Lead Independent Director at National Vision Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: assumed
  - Role: Lead Independent Director
  source text: D. Randolph Peeler, the current Chair of the Board, will assume the role of Lead Independent Director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000110465925040476/0001104659-25-040476-index.htm

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