John Boken was appointed as the company’s interim Chief Transformation Officer in August 2025. Mr. Boken has been a Partner and Managing Director in the Turnaround and Restructuring Services practice at AlixPartners, LLP (“AlixPartners”), an international consultancy firm, for over 6 years and has over 35 years of interim management, corporate turnaround and restructuring experience. As part of his employment at AlixPartners, and a predecessor entity, Zolfo Cooper LLC, Mr. Boken served as Chief Executive Officer of MVK FarmCo LLC dba Prima Wawona from February 2023 to April 2024, as CEO of SolarWorld Americas from January 2018 to July 2022 and as Deputy Chief Restructuring Officer for PG&E Corporation from January 2019 to July 2020, among other executive roles with client companies. Mr. Boken was a Managing Director at Zolfo Cooper LLC, a boutique corporate turnaround and restructuring firm, from July 2002 to November 2018 before Mr. Boken and his partners sold the firm to AlixPartners in November 2018 and combined the practices. Prior to joining Zolfo Cooper LLC in July 2002, Mr. Boken was the Managing Partner of the Los Angeles corporate restructuring practice at Arthur Andersen. Mr. Boken serves on the Board of Directors for The Pasha Group, a privately owned, West Coast-based leader in the shipping, transportation and logistics industry and on the Board of Trustees for the University of Scranton. Mr. Boken holds a B.S. degree in finance from Santa Clara University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive), as well as a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

Drew Lufkin joined Beyond Meat as Senior Vice President, Sales in April 2024. Before joining Beyond Meat, Mr. Lufkin served as Vice President of Sales–Retail/Foodservice at Heartland Food Products Group, a global leader in the consumer-packaged goods industry producing low-calorie sweeteners, coffee, creamers, adult nutrition and liquid water enhancers, from 2017 to 2024. Prior to that, Mr. Lufkin served as Vice President–Sales and Marketing from 2016 to 2017 and Division Vice President–Sales and Marketing from 2012 to 2016 at Kruger Products USA, a leading manufacturer and distributor of tissue and paper towel products. Prior to that, Mr. Lufkin served in various roles at Crossmark Sales & Marketing from 2004 to 2012, most recently as Division Manager. Mr. Lufkin received his BS degree in Business Administration from Babson College.

Jonathan Nelson has served as the company’s Chief Operations Officer since January 2024. Prior to that, Mr. Nelson served as Senior Vice President, Operations from October 2022 to January 2024, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Operations from December 2021 to October 2022, and Vice President, NA Manufacturing Operations from May 2021 to November 2021, assuming additional responsibilities on an interim basis pending the search for a chief operating officer from August 2021 to December 2021. Prior to joining the company, from March 2021 to May 2021, Mr. Nelson served as Chief Executive Officer of JP Nelson Consulting, a private consulting firm. From January 2012 to January 2021, Mr. Nelson served in various roles with SunOpta, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKL), a global company focused on plant-based foods and beverages, fruit-based foods and beverages, and organic ingredient sourcing and production, including as Vice President, Operations–Ingredients from January 2012 to March 2016, and Vice President, Operations–Plant Based Food and Beverage from March 2016 to January 2021. Mr. Nelson received his BS degree in Paper Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and his MBA degree from the University of Mary.

Lubi Kutua has served as the company's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since October 2022. Mr. Kutua served as Vice President, FP&A and Investor Relations from January 2019 to October 2022. Before joining Beyond Meat, Mr. Kutua served as Vice President, Equity Research, with a focus on the packaged foods and agribusiness sectors, at Jefferies, LLC from August 2015 to January 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Kutua served as Associate-Analyst, Equity Research, also focusing on packaged foods and agribusiness, at KeyBanc Capital Markets. He began his career in financial services at Goldman Sachs, most recently serving as Associate, Divisional Management Reporting. Mr. Kutua received his BA degree in Mathematics and Physics from Hamilton College, and his MBA degree from The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Teri L. Witteman joined Beyond Meat as General Counsel and Secretary in May 2019, and has served as Chief Legal Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining Beyond Meat, Ms. Witteman was a partner with Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP from April 2016 to May 2019, specializing in the areas of SEC compliance, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions. Before joining Musick Peeler, Ms. Witteman was an attorney with Anglin Flewelling Rasmussen Campbell & Trytten LLP from September 2004 to April 2016, having started her career with Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles, where she focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. From December 2012 to September 2018, Ms. Witteman served as Secretary of Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ: FARM), a national coffee roaster, wholesaler and distributor of coffee, tea and culinary products. Ms. Witteman has served on the board of directors of the El Segundo Economic Development Corporation since 2024, and served as a member of the policy advisory council (previously the policy committee) of the Plant Based Foods Association from April 2023 until June 2025. Ms. Witteman received her Juris Doctor degree, Order of the Coif, from UCLA School of Law, and her BA degree in Economics, with honors and distinction, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dariush Ajami, PhD, joined Beyond Meat in June 2015. Since July 2018, Dr. Ajami has been Chief Innovation Officer of Beyond Meat. He served as Director of Chemistry from June 2015 to August 2016, Director of Research from August 2016 to August 2017 and Vice President of Innovation from August 2017 to July 2018. Prior to joining Beyond Meat, Dr. Ajami was an Assistant Professor of Molecular Assembly at The Scripps Research Institute and Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology from July 2008 to June 2015, where he worked on the fundamentals of molecular assembly, natural products and their applications in therapeutic development. Dr. Ajami has a BS degree in Chemistry from Isfahan University, Iran, an MS degree in Organic Chemistry from the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran, and a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from the Technical University of Brunswick (Technische Universität Braunschweig), Germany.

Ethan Brown is the Founder of Beyond Meat and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since our inception in 2009. In addition, he served as a member of our board of directors from our inception to October 15, 2025. He has served as a manager of the Planet Partnership, LLC, our joint venture with PepsiCo, Inc., since January 2021, and served as our Secretary from our inception to September 2018. Mr. Brown began his career with a focus on clean energy and the environment, including serving as an energy analyst for the National Governors’ Center for Best Practices. He then joined Ballard Power Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLDP), a proton exchange membrane fuel cell company, being promoted from an entry-level manager to reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer before leaving to found Beyond Meat. Mr. Brown also created and opened a center for fuel reformation and has held several industry positions, including Vice Chairman of the Board at The National Hydrogen Association and Secretary of the United States Fuel Cell Council. He is on the board of the American Cancer Society’s CEO’s Against Cancer (LA Chapter), is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, was honored as part of The Independent’s Climate 100 for 2024, Inc.’s Best Led Companies 2021, The Bloomberg 50 for 2019 and Newsweek’s Top Innovators of 2019, and, along with Beyond Meat, is the recipient of the United Nation’s highest environmental accolade, Champion of the Earth (2018). Mr. Brown received an MBA degree from Columbia University, an MPP degree with a focus on Environment from the University of Maryland and a BA degree in History and Government from Connecticut College.