secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     BEYOND MEAT, INC. (BYND)
CIK:        0001655210
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-01-05T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001655210-26-000003
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Beyond Meat appoints Tony Kalajian as Chief Accounting Officer effective Jan 12, 2026
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- Tony Kalajian appointed CAO and principal accounting officer effective Jan 12, 2026; succeeds interim CAO Lubi Kutua who remains CFO.
- Annual base salary of $325,000; target bonus of 35% of base; one-time sign-on cash bonus of $35,000 with clawback provision.
- Equity awards: option to purchase shares valued at $150,000 and RSUs valued at $150,000, both vesting over four years.
- Kalajian previously served as Consulting CFO of ContinuEM and CAO of Calidi Biotherapeutics, Oncocyte, and Lineage Cell Therapeutics.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521026000003/0001655210-26-000003-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521026000003/bynd-20251229.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001655210-26-000003

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