---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-003963"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BJRI"
cik: "0001013488"
company_name: "BJs RESTAURANTS INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T02:27:24.636986+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BJ's Restaurants adds CEO Lyle Tick to Board; Trojan to retire Sept 16

## Summary
- CEO Lyle D. Tick appointed to Board effective June 16, 2025, per his employment agreement.
- Former CEO Gregory A. Trojan to retire from Board effective September 16, 2025.
- At June 12 annual meeting, all 8 directors elected; say-on-pay passed; KPMG ratified; food waste proposal rejected.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-003963
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BJRI
- cik: 0001013488
- company_name: BJs RESTAURANTS INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003963/0001171843-25-003963-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003963/f8k_061825.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-003963
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-003963.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-003963.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lyle D. Tick was named as member of the Board at BJs RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: named
  - Role: member of the Board
  source text: On June 16, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. (the “Company”) named Lyle D. Tick, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President, as a member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003963/0001171843-25-003963-index.htm
- Executive change
  Gregory A. Trojan departed as Director at BJs RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Director
  source text: In addition, on June 16, 2025, Gregory A. Trojan, the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, informed the Board that he would be retiring from the Board effective September 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003963/0001171843-25-003963-index.htm

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