---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-053287"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMPL"
cik: "0001702744"
company_name: "Simply Good Foods Co"
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T08:19:29.634169+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Simply Good Foods appoints Christopher Bealer as CFO, effective July 3; severance plan amended

## Summary
- Christopher J. Bealer named CFO effective July 3, 2025; base salary of $500,000.
- Bealer, 48, was EVP Corporate Controller at Reckitt and earlier CFO roles at Whirlpool.
- Severance plan multiplies cash severance to 3x for CEO and 2x for CFO/CLO/CHRO on Change-in-Control Qualifying Termination.
- Bealer eligible for LTI target of 150% of base salary and annual bonus target of 75% of base salary.
- Amended plan applies to current named executives: CEO Geoff E. Tanner, CFO Shaun P. Mara, and others.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-053287
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMPL
- cik: 0001702744
- company_name: Simply Good Foods Co
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925053287/0001104659-25-053287-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925053287/tm2516088d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-053287
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-053287.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-053287.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher J. Bealer was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Simply Good Foods Co.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: on May 23, 2025, The Simply Good Foods Company (the “Company”) appointed Christopher J. Bealer as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer effective July 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000110465925053287/0001104659-25-053287-index.htm

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