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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-020499"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SG"
cik: "0001477815"
company_name: "Sweetgreen, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T03:41:26.892156+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sweetgreen appoints Jason Cochran as COO effective May 5, 2025

## Summary
- Jason Cochran, previously CEO of American West Restaurant Group and VP at Chipotle, appointed COO.
- He will oversee Field Operations, Operations Services and Innovation, reporting to CEO Jonathan Neman.
- Compensation: $500k base salary, 75% target bonus, equity grants of 250k options and 100k RSUs vesting over 4 years, plus $50k signing bonus.
- Effective date May 5, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-020499
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SG
- cik: 0001477815
- company_name: Sweetgreen, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025020499/0001628280-25-020499-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025020499/sg-20250429.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-020499.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jason Cochran was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Sweetgreen, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On April 29, 2025, Sweetgreen, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Jason Cochran as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, effective May 5, 2024 (“the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477815/000162828025020499/0001628280-25-020499-index.htm

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