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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001710155-25-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EYE"
cik: "0001710155"
company_name: "National Vision Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:30:06.062240+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# National Vision appoints Alex Wilkes to Board as part of CEO succession plan

## Summary
- Board size increased to eleven; Alex Wilkes appointed director effective August 1, 2025.
- Appointments part of previously announced succession plan: Reade Fahs becomes Executive Chairman, Wilkes succeeds as CEO.
- Succession plan was disclosed in Form 8-K filed April 29, 2025.
- No other changes to Board composition disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001710155-25-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EYE
- cik: 0001710155
- company_name: National Vision Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000171015525000036/0001710155-25-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710155/000171015525000036/eye-20250801.htm

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