---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-034013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PZZA"
cik: "0000901491"
company_name: "PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:51:25.743727+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Papa John's names Chris Collins SVP Corporate Finance and Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Chris Collins, previously VP Finance, promoted to SVP Corporate Finance and Principal Accounting Officer effective July 2, 2025.
- Collins has been with Papa John's since April 2021 and has over 30 years of finance experience.
- CFO Ravi Thanawala, who had been serving as principal accounting officer, will continue as principal financial officer.
- Promotion is a routine internal move; no compensation or related-party transactions disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-034013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PZZA
- cik: 0000901491
- company_name: PAPA JOHNS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/901491/000162828025034013/0001628280-25-034013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/901491/000162828025034013/pzza-20250702.htm

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