secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Mission Produce, Inc. (AVO)
CIK:        0001802974
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-12-18T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-25-324829
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.72
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Mission Produce CEO succession: COO Pawlowski to become CEO in April 2026; Barnard becomes Executive Chairman
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- John Pawlowski (current President & COO) to become President & CEO effective April 9, 2026; founder Steve Barnard transitions to Executive Chairman.
- Chairman Stephen Beebe to resign at 2026 Annual Meeting; Linda Segre named Lead Independent Director; Bonnie Lind not standing for re-election.
- Three new independent directors appointed in 2025: Michael Sims (May), Laura Flanagan (June), Douglas Stone (November) as part of board refreshment.
- Pawlowski’s employment agreement: $750k base salary, 100% target bonus, $2M initial equity grant; severance of 1.5x salary+bonus (2x in change of control).
- Barnard’s amended agreement: base salary 75% of then-current CEO in year 1, 50% in year 2; equity awards scaled at 75% / 50% of CEO target.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312525324829/0001193125-25-324829-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312525324829/d891316d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-324829

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