---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001839882-25-008405"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEVI"
cik: "0000094845"
company_name: "LEVI STRAUSS & CO"
filed_at: "2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:42:32.783980+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Levi Strauss & Co. announces leadership changes; COO Liz O'Neill to retire March 1

## Summary
- Liz O'Neill, EVP and COO, will retire on or about March 1; remains as consultant through August 1.
- Karyn Hillman expands to Chief Product Officer overseeing Design and Merchandising.
- Bernard Bedon appointed CHRO effective March 3, joining from Nike.
- Harmit Singh adds oversight of Transformation program to CFO/Growth Officer role.
- COO role replaced by new Chief Supply Chain Officer; roles for Gowans and Flore also expanded.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001839882-25-008405
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEVI
- cik: 0000094845
- company_name: LEVI STRAUSS & CO
- filed_at: 2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94845/000183988225008405/0001839882-25-008405-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94845/000183988225008405/levi-8k_021125.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001839882-25-008405
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001839882-25-008405.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001839882-25-008405.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Liz O'Neill departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer at LEVI STRAUSS & CO.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer
  source text: On February 11, 2025, Levi Strauss & Co. (the “Company”) announced that Liz O’Neill will retire as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer on or about March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94845/000183988225008405/0001839882-25-008405-index.htm

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