Company: UTZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001739566-25-000151
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Company: Utz Brands, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Removal of Principal Accounting Officer; Appointment of Principal Accounting Officer

The Board of Directors of the Company has determined that, effective as of August 15, 2025, Ryan Tewey, the Company’s current Vice President, Controller, will be designated as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer, and William J. Kelley Jr., the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and current Principal Accounting Officer, will cease to serve as the Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Kelley will continue to serve as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Tewey joined the Company in October 2020 and has served as Vice President, Controller since January 2024 where he is responsible for the Company’s corporate accounting function, shared services, external reporting, technical accounting, internal controls, and implementation of new accounting standards. Prior to his current position, Mr. Tewey served as Senior Director of Accounting from March 2023 to January 2024, and prior to that he served as Director of Accounting from October 2020 to March 2023. Prior to joining Utz, Mr. Tewey served as Senior Manager, Financial Reporting at Sinclair, Inc., a diversified media company, from April 2013 to October 2020, where he led the company’s internal and external reporting and other corporate accounting activities. Mr. Tewey also served in roles of increasing responsibility within the audit practice at KPMG LLP, a multinational professional services network and accounting firm, from January 2008 to April 2013. Mr. Tewey earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Master of Business Administration in Accounting from Loyola University, Maryland.

There were no new arrangements or modifications to existing arrangements entered into with Mr. Tewey in connection with his designation as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer.

The designation of Mr. Tewey to serve as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer was not made pursuant to any arrangement or understanding with respect to any other person. In addition, there are no family relationships between Mr. Tewey and any director or other executive officer of the Company, and there are no related persons transactions (within the meaning of Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K) involving Mr. Tewey and the Company.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.