---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001418135-25-000064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KDP"
cik: "0001418135"
company_name: "Keurig Dr Pepper Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T05:46:56.407893+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Keurig Dr Pepper announces chairman transition and two new independent directors

## Summary
- Robert Gamgort transitions from Executive Chairman to non-employee Chairman effective April 24, 2025.
- Board expands to ten directors; appoints Michael Van de Ven and Lawson Whiting as independent directors.
- Van de Ven joins Audit and Finance Committee; Whiting joins Remuneration and Nomination Committee.
- New directors will stand for election at 2025 annual meeting; compensation per proxy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001418135-25-000064
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KDP
- cik: 0001418135
- company_name: Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418135/000141813525000064/0001418135-25-000064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418135/000141813525000064/kdp-20250421.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001418135-25-000064
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001418135-25-000064.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001418135-25-000064.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lawson Whiting was appointed as Director at Keurig Dr Pepper Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Michael Van de Ven and Lawson Whiting as independent members of the Board, effective April 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418135/000141813525000064/0001418135-25-000064-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Gamgort changed role as non-employee Chairman of the Board at Keurig Dr Pepper Inc..
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: non-employee Chairman of the Board
  source text: On April 21, 2025, the Board of Directors ("Board") of Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (the "Company") approved Robert Gamgort's transition from the role of Executive Chairman to non-employee Chairman of the Board, effective April 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418135/000141813525000064/0001418135-25-000064-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael Van de Ven was appointed as Director at Keurig Dr Pepper Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Michael Van de Ven and Lawson Whiting as independent members of the Board, effective April 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418135/000141813525000064/0001418135-25-000064-index.htm

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