---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001655210-22-000189"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYND"
cik: "0001655210"
company_name: "BEYOND MEAT, INC."
filed_at: "2022-09-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T08:32:53.942533+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Beyond Meat suspends COO Doug Ramsey effective immediately; interim ops lead named

## Summary
- Doug Ramsey, Chief Operating Officer, suspended effective September 20, 2022.
- Jonathan Nelson, SVP Manufacturing Operations, named interim overseer of operations.
- No reason for suspension disclosed in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001655210-22-000189
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYND
- cik: 0001655210
- company_name: BEYOND MEAT, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-09-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521022000189/0001655210-22-000189-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521022000189/bynd-20220920.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Doug Ramsey departed as Chief Operating Officer at BEYOND MEAT, INC..
  - Action: suspended
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On September 20, 2022 , Beyond Meat, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a statement announcing Doug Ramsey, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, has been suspended effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521022000189/0001655210-22-000189-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jonathan Nelson was named as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Operations at BEYOND MEAT, INC..
  - Action: named
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Operations
  source text: Operations activities will be overseen on an interim basis by Jonathan Nelson, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Operations.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521022000189/0001655210-22-000189-index.htm

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