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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 29, 2023

 

 

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The Board of Directors of Conagra Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) has appointed William Eric Johnson to serve as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller (principal accounting officer) of the Company, effective July 29, 2023, reporting to the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, David Marberger. As previously announced, Robert Wise retired as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller on July 28, 2023.

 

Mr. Johnson, 41, joined the Company as Assistant Controller in September 2019. Prior to that, he was Director of Internal Audit at Kiewit Corporation, a North American construction and engineering organization, from June 2018 to August 2019. Mr. Johnson began his career at KPMG, spending more than 12 years in positions of increasing responsibility from 2005 to 2018. He received a master’s degree in Accountancy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

 

There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Johnson and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Johnson was appointed as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller. There are no family relationships between Mr. Johnson and any director or executive officer of the Company, and he does not have any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or proposed transaction required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.  The Human Resources Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors determined Mr. Johnson’s annual base salary, target annual incentive plan opportunity and target long-term incentive plan opportunity for fiscal year 2024 consistent with its determinations of such amounts for our executive officers as described in the “Compensation Discussion & Analysis” section of our 2022 proxy statement.

 

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

Date: July 31, 2023