---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-015433"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SG"
cik: "0001477815"
company_name: "Sweetgreen, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T02:59:06.334219+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sweetgreen: Youngme Moon and Valerie Jarrett to exit board; Monty Moran and Dawn Ostroff nominated

## Summary
- Youngme Moon and Valerie Jarrett will not stand for re-election at the 2025 annual meeting; no disagreement cited.
- Board nominated Monty Moran (former co-CEO of Chipotle) and Dawn Ostroff (ex-Spotify content officer) as independent directors.
- Moran brings restaurant scaling expertise; Ostroff has brand-building and digital transformation experience.
- If elected, both will serve one-year terms ending in 2026.
- CEO Jonathan Neman thanked outgoing directors for their service in a company-wide letter.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-015433
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SG
- cik: 0001477815
- company_name: Sweetgreen, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025015433/0001628280-25-015433-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025015433/sg-20250328.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015433
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015433.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015433.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dawn Ostroff was appointed as Director at Sweetgreen, Inc..
  - Action: nominated as new independent director
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board has nominated Monty Moran and Dawn Ostroff as new independent directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025015433/0001628280-25-015433-index.htm
- Executive change
  Valerie Jarrett departed as Director at Sweetgreen, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Sweetgreen, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Youngme Moon and Valerie Jarrett will not stand for re-election as directors of the Company at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025015433/0001628280-25-015433-index.htm
- Executive change
  Youngme Moon departed as Director at Sweetgreen, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Sweetgreen, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Youngme Moon and Valerie Jarrett will not stand for re-election as directors of the Company at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025015433/0001628280-25-015433-index.htm
- Executive change
  Monty Moran was appointed as Director at Sweetgreen, Inc..
  - Action: nominated as new independent director
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board has nominated Monty Moran and Dawn Ostroff as new independent directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025015433/0001628280-25-015433-index.htm

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