---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-056664"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHAK"
cik: "0001620533"
company_name: "Shake Shack Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-14T21:47:08.066080+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shake Shack appoints Michelle Hook as CFO, effective May 11, 2026

## Summary
- Michelle Hook joins from Portillo's, where she served as CFO since Dec 2020 and led the 2021 IPO.
- Base salary $625,000; target bonus 100% of base; signing cash award $300,000 and $1.2M RSU grant.
- She will report to CEO Rob Lynch and oversee accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and investor relations.
- Hook previously spent 17+ years at Domino's Pizza, most recently as VP of Finance for global FP&A and IR.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-056664
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHAK
- cik: 0001620533
- company_name: Shake Shack Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465926056664/0001104659-26-056664-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465926056664/tm2613751d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-056664
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-056664.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-056664.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michelle Hook was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Shake Shack Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: appointed Michelle Hook to serve as its Chief Financial Officer, effective as of May 11, 2026
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465926056664/0001104659-26-056664-index.htm

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