---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001637459-24-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KHC"
cik: "0001637459"
company_name: "Kraft Heinz Co"
filed_at: "2024-02-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T19:31:12.496066+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kraft Heinz appoints acting Principal Accounting Officer during Garlati's leave

## Summary
- Vince Garlati, VP Global Controller and PAO, taking personal leave from March 7, 2024.
- Chris Asher appointed acting Principal Accounting Officer effective March 7, 2024.
- Asher currently Deputy Global Controller (since Feb 2024) and previously North America Controller.
- Asher has no familial relationships with directors or executive officers, no reportable transactions.
- Asher was not selected pursuant to any arrangement with any other person.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001637459-24-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KHC
- cik: 0001637459
- company_name: Kraft Heinz Co
- filed_at: 2024-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745924000024/0001637459-24-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745924000024/khc-20240221.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637459-24-000024
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637459-24-000024.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637459-24-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Vince Garlati departed as Vice President, Global Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Kraft Heinz Co.
  - Action: taking a personal leave of absence
  - Role: Vice President, Global Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 21, 2024, Vince Garlati, Vice President, Global Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of The Kraft Heinz Company (the “Company”), notified the Company that he would be taking a personal leave of absence beginning March 7, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745924000024/0001637459-24-000024-index.htm
- Executive change
  Chris Asher was appointed as acting Principal Accounting Officer at Kraft Heinz Co.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: acting Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: In connection with Mr. Garlati’s leave of absence, effective March 7, 2024, Chris Asher was appointed as acting Principal Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745924000024/0001637459-24-000024-index.htm

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