---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-009572"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVO"
cik: "0001802974"
company_name: "Mission Produce, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T22:20:04.243232+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mission Produce appoints Damian Ricketts as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Damian Ricketts named CAO effective January 19, 2025; previously VP, Accounting & Finance since 2018.
- Annual base salary set at $330,018; target bonus of 75% under annual cash incentive plan.
- Ricketts holds a B.A. in Economics from UC Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
- No family relationships with executive officers or directors; no reportable transactions under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-009572
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVO
- cik: 0001802974
- company_name: Mission Produce, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312525009572/0001193125-25-009572-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312525009572/d869689d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-009572.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Damian Ricketts was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Mission Produce, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 21, 2025, Mission Produce, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Damian Ricketts as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer effective January 19, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312525009572/0001193125-25-009572-index.htm

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