---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-048467"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BNED"
cik: "0001634117"
company_name: "Barnes & Noble Education, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T06:07:36.296708+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Barnes & Noble Education appoints GC and CAO effective March 3, 2025

## Summary
- Christopher Neumann named General Counsel & Corporate Secretary; previously GC at Six Flags.
- Gary Luster named Chief Accounting Officer; previously VP/Controller at TerrAscend.
- Luster receives $335,000 base salary and 30,000 performance stock units subject to board approval.
- Neumann led legal function through Six Flags' $8B merger with Cedar Fair.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-048467
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BNED
- cik: 0001634117
- company_name: Barnes & Noble Education, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634117/000119312525048467/0001193125-25-048467-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634117/000119312525048467/d903247d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-048467.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gary Luster was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at Barnes & Noble Education, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: The Board of Directors of Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Gary Luster, age 57, as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, effective as of March 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634117/000119312525048467/0001193125-25-048467-index.htm

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