---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001637459-25-000102"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KHC"
cik: "0001637459"
company_name: "Kraft Heinz Co"
filed_at: "2025-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T00:05:42.346929+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Two Kraft Heinz directors step down effective May 20; board reduced to ten

## Summary
- Timothy Kenesey and Alicia Knapp resigned from Kraft Heinz board effective May 20, 2025.
- Board size reduced from prior number to ten members as a result.
- Departures not due to any disagreement with management or board policies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001637459-25-000102
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KHC
- cik: 0001637459
- company_name: Kraft Heinz Co
- filed_at: 2025-05-20T23:59:59+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/1637459/000163745925000102/0001637459-25-000102-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745925000102/khc-20250519.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637459-25-000102
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637459-25-000102.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Timothy Kenesey departed as Director at Kraft Heinz Co.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 19, 2025, Timothy Kenesey and Alicia Knapp, members of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Kraft Heinz Company (the “Company”), each informed the Company of their respective decisions to step down from the Board effective May 20, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745925000102/0001637459-25-000102-index.htm
- Executive change
  Alicia Knapp departed as Director at Kraft Heinz Co.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 19, 2025, Timothy Kenesey and Alicia Knapp, members of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Kraft Heinz Company (the “Company”), each informed the Company of their respective decisions to step down from the Board effective May 20, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745925000102/0001637459-25-000102-index.htm

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