---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001655210-24-000101"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYND"
cik: "0001655210"
company_name: "BEYOND MEAT, INC."
filed_at: "2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T14:04:03.004340+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Beyond Meat appoints Yi (Jevy) Luo as principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Luo appointed principal accounting officer effective April 22, 2024; Lubi Kutua steps down from interim role.
- Luo previously VP Corporate Controller at Herbalife (2020-2024); earlier roles at Chemours and DuPont.
- Annual base salary $315,000; target bonus 35% of base; one-time sign-on cash bonus of $30,000.
- Equity awards valued at $200,000 in options and $200,000 in RSUs, each vesting over four years.
- Luo holds a CPA license in Pennsylvania; MBA from Penn State; no family relationships with other officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001655210-24-000101
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYND
- cik: 0001655210
- company_name: BEYOND MEAT, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-04-22T23:59:59+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/1655210/000165521024000101/0001655210-24-000101-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521024000101/bynd-20240422.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Yi (Jevy) Luo was appointed as principal accounting officer at BEYOND MEAT, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: appointed Yi (Jevy) Luo, age 47, the Company's Vice President, Corporate Controller, as principal accounting officer effective as of April 22, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521024000101/0001655210-24-000101-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lubi Kutua changed role as interim principal accounting officer at BEYOND MEAT, INC..
  - Action: will no longer continue as
  - Role: interim principal accounting officer
  source text: Lubi Kutua, the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and interim principal accounting officer, will no longer continue as interim principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521024000101/0001655210-24-000101-index.htm

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