---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-21-001150"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TPR"
cik: "0001116132"
company_name: "TAPESTRY, INC."
filed_at: "2021-09-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T02:52:35.191649+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tapestry board Chair Susan Kropf to retire; Anne Gates to succeed

## Summary
- Susan Kropf, Board Chair, to retire after 15+ years; will not stand for re-election at Nov 3, 2021 annual meeting.
- Anne Gates, current Audit Committee Chair, expected to succeed as independent Chair after the meeting.
- Kropf will remain Chair until the annual meeting on November 3, 2021.
- Gates has served on board since 2017 and leads Audit Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-21-001150
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TPR
- cik: 0001116132
- company_name: TAPESTRY, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-09-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1116132/000115752321001150/0001157523-21-001150-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1116132/000115752321001150/a52493417.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001150
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001150.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001150.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Susan Kropf departed as Chair of the Board at TAPESTRY, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chair of the Board
  source text: Susan Kropf, a member and the Chair of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Tapestry, Inc. (the “Company”) advised the Board and the Company on September 13, 2021 that, after over 15 years of service on the Board and reaching the age of 72, she would be retiring and thus would not stand for re-election to the Board at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders for fiscal year 2021 (the “Annual Meeting”) on November 3, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1116132/000115752321001150/0001157523-21-001150-index.htm
- Executive change
  Anne Gates was appointed as Chair of the Board at TAPESTRY, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chair of the Board
  source text: Anne Gates is expected to succeed Ms. Kropf as independent Chair of the Board, upon formal action of the Board following the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1116132/000115752321001150/0001157523-21-001150-index.htm

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