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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-273309"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KLC"
cik: "0001873529"
company_name: "KinderCare Learning Companies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T22:38:18.889397+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KinderCare promotes Lindsay Sorhondo to COO effective Nov 11, 2025

## Summary
- Sorhondo was Chief Innovation Officer since Feb 2023; now EVP & COO overseeing strategy, operations, growth, marketing, IT.
- Base salary increased to $450,000; target short-term incentive raised from 45% to 55% of salary.
- Expected 2026 long-term equity incentive award value of $650,000, subject to Compensation Committee approval.
- Sorhondo has been with KinderCare since 2013; holds master's in psychology from NYU and BA from UC San Diego.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-273309
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KLC
- cik: 0001873529
- company_name: KinderCare Learning Companies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1873529/000119312525273309/0001193125-25-273309-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1873529/000119312525273309/klc-20251105.htm

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