---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-22-000643"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PZZA"
cik: "0000901491"
company_name: "PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2022-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T16:03:49.992645+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Papa John's names Max Wetzel EVP and Chief Operating Officer

## Summary
- Max Wetzel, 45, appointed EVP and COO effective May 16, 2022; will oversee marketing, operations and technology.
- Annual base salary of $650,000; cash incentive target of 75% of base salary.
- Long-term equity incentive award valued at $1,000,000; 60% in PSUs (3-year vesting), 40% in time-based RSUs (cliff vesting).
- Wetzel joined Papa John's in 2019 as Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer, became EVP Chief Commercial Officer in Oct 2021.
- Prior role: VP Consumer Brands at PPG Architectural Coatings (July 2018).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-22-000643
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PZZA
- cik: 0000901491
- company_name: PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2022-05-16T23:59:59+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/901491/000115752322000643/0001157523-22-000643-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/901491/000115752322000643/a52721390.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-22-000643
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-22-000643.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-22-000643.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Max Wetzel was named as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC.
  - Action: named
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On May 16, 2022, Papa John’s International, Inc. (the "Company") named Max Wetzel Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/901491/000115752322000643/0001157523-22-000643-index.htm

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