---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001944048-25-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KVUE"
cik: "0001944048"
company_name: "Kenvue Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T11:38:38.005662+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kenvue appoints 3 new directors, including Starboard's CEO, settles proxy fight

## Summary
- Board temporarily expands from 11 to 14 directors; to reduce to 13 after 2025 annual meeting.
- Starboard withdraws its slate of director nominees and agrees to standstill through mid-2026.
- New directors: Sarah Hofstetter (Profitero), Erica Mann (ex-Bayer Consumer Health), and Starboard's Jeffrey Smith.
- Hofstetter appointed to Audit Committee; Mann to Nominating, Governance & Sustainability; Smith to Compensation Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001944048-25-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KVUE
- cik: 0001944048
- company_name: Kenvue Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000194404825000035/0001944048-25-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000194404825000035/kvue-20250305.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001944048-25-000035
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001944048-25-000035.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001944048-25-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sarah Hofstetter was appointed as Director at Kenvue Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Ms. Hofstetter has been appointed to the Audit Committee of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000194404825000035/0001944048-25-000035-index.htm
- Executive change
  Erica Mann was appointed as Director at Kenvue Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Ms. Mann has been appointed to the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944048/000194404825000035/0001944048-25-000035-index.htm

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