---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-26-028554"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LSF"
cik: "0001650696"
company_name: "Laird Superfood, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-08-19T20:52:46+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-08-19T20:54:08.278704+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Laird Superfood appoints Matthew Spanjers to board and compensation committee

## Summary
- Appointed director effective Aug 13, 2026; term ends at next annual stockholders meeting.
- Spanjers served as Krispy Kreme Chief Growth Officer (Aug 2019-Mar 2025) and President, International (May 2023-Mar 2025).
- He is a designee of Investor Gateway Superfood NSSIII Investment under the Dec 21, 2025 Investment Agreement.
- Will receive standard non-employee director cash compensation and options vesting annually over 4 years.
- No reportable transactions between the company and Spanjers or his immediate family.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-26-028554
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LSF
- cik: 0001650696
- company_name: Laird Superfood, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-08-19T20:52:46+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650696/000143774926028554/0001437749-26-028554-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650696/000143774926028554/lsf20260819_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-028554.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew Spanjers was appointed as director at Laird Superfood, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On August 13, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Laird Superfood, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Matthew Spanjers as a director, effective as of August 13, 2026,
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650696/000143774926028554/0001437749-26-028554-index.htm

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