---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001314727-25-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SONO"
cik: "0001314727"
company_name: "Sonos Inc"
filed_at: "2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T02:55:23.221306+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down; board member Tom Conrad named interim CEO

## Summary
- Patrick Spence steps down as CEO and board member effective Jan 13, 2025; will stay as strategic advisor through June 30, 2025.
- Spence receives severance of $1.875M, 12-month COBRA coverage, accelerated RSU vesting, and option extension to June 2026.
- Tom Conrad, board member since 2017, appointed Interim CEO and President; compensation includes $175K monthly salary and $2.65M RSU grant.
- Board initiates CEO search with executive search firm; Q1 fiscal 2025 results to be reported Feb 6, 2025 – no update provided.
- Conrad steps down from Compensation Committee chair; Karen Boone named chair, Julius Genachowski appointed to committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001314727-25-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SONO
- cik: 0001314727
- company_name: Sonos Inc
- filed_at: 2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314727/000131472725000003/0001314727-25-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314727/000131472725000003/sono-20250112.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001314727-25-000003.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tom Conrad was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer and President at Sonos Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer and President
  source text: on January 12, 2025, the Board appointed Tom Conrad as Interim CEO and President, effective January 13, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314727/000131472725000003/0001314727-25-000003-index.htm
- Executive change
  Patrick Spence departed as Chief Executive Officer at Sonos Inc.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On January 12, 2025, Patrick Spence and the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Sonos, Inc. (the "Company") agreed that Mr. Spence will step down as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and as a member of the Board, effective as of January 13, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314727/000131472725000003/0001314727-25-000003-index.htm

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