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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001804745-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRVN"
cik: "0001804745"
company_name: "Driven Brands Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T08:20:05.990475+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Driven Brands appoints Rebecca Fondell as CAO effective May 9, 2025

## Summary
- Rebecca Fondell, previously Global Corporate Controller at Papa John's, named SVP and CAO.
- Base salary of $400,000; annual target bonus of 50% of base salary.
- Sign-on cash bonus of $150,000; one-time RSU grant of $400,000 vesting over three years.
- Annual LTI target of 75% of base salary; severance of 9 months' salary if terminated without cause.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001804745-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRVN
- cik: 0001804745
- company_name: Driven Brands Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1804745/000180474525000041/0001804745-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1804745/000180474525000041/drvn-20250417.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001804745-25-000041
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001804745-25-000041.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001804745-25-000041.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rebecca Fondell was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Driven Brands Holdings Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Driven Brands Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) has appointed Rebecca Fondell to serve as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (“CAO”) effective as of May 9, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1804745/000180474525000041/0001804745-25-000041-index.htm

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