---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001655210-25-000061"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYND"
cik: "0001655210"
company_name: "BEYOND MEAT, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T15:46:25.668171+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Beyond Meat CMO Akerho Oghoghomeh departs as part of RIF; receives $221,667 severance

## Summary
- CMO Akerho Oghoghomeh left Beyond Meat effective March 4, 2025, as part of a previously announced reduction in force.
- Separation agreement provides $221,666.67 cash severance, 7 months COBRA premium payments, and 3 months outplacement services.
- Oghoghomeh signed a general release of claims and reaffirmed confidentiality, non-disparagement, and cooperation obligations.
- Vested stock options expire 3 months post-separation; unvested options and RSUs forfeited per equity plan terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001655210-25-000061
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYND
- cik: 0001655210
- company_name: BEYOND MEAT, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521025000061/0001655210-25-000061-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521025000061/bynd-20250312.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001655210-25-000061
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001655210-25-000061.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Akerho Oghoghomeh departed as Chief Marketing Officer at BEYOND MEAT, INC..
  - Action: left
  - Role: Chief Marketing Officer
  source text: As previously disclosed on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2025 (the “Prior Form 8-K”), Beyond Meat, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Akerho “AK” Oghoghomeh, the Company’s former Chief Marketing Officer, left the business as part of a reduction in force.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521025000061/0001655210-25-000061-index.htm

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