---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-001704"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUCK"
cik: "0001840572"
company_name: "Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp"
filed_at: "2024-01-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T22:05:37.590578+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bowlero appoints Lev Ekster as President; base salary $725k, stock option for 154,815 shares

## Summary
- Lev Ekster, 40, promoted to President effective Jan 15, 2024; previously Chief Strategy Officer.
- Annual base salary $725,000; target bonus equal to 50% of base salary.
- Nonqualified stock option granted to purchase 154,815 shares vesting over three years at exercise prices of $15.41, $17.91, $20.41 per third.
- Thomas Shannon remains Chairman and CEO; Ekster will oversee daily center operations.
- Ekster joined Bowlero in 2013; led PBA growth and amusements revenue from under $35M to over $100M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-001704
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUCK
- cik: 0001840572
- company_name: Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp
- filed_at: 2024-01-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840572/000162828024001704/0001628280-24-001704-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840572/000162828024001704/bowl-20240112.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-001704
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-001704.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-001704.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lev Ekster was appointed as President at Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President
  source text: On January 12, 2024, Bowlero Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Lev Ekster, 40, to serve as President of the Company, effective January 15, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840572/000162828024001704/0001628280-24-001704-index.htm
- Executive change
  Thomas Shannon changed role as President at Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp.
  - Role: President
  source text: Mr. Ekster succeeds Thomas Shannon in the position of President, while Mr. Shannon remains the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840572/000162828024001704/0001628280-24-001704-index.htm

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