Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On December 8, 2021, the Board of Directors of El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (the
"Company"), upon the recommendation of the Company's Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee, elected Deborah Gonzalez as a Class I independent director
of the Company and Nancy Faginas-Cody as a Class II independent director of the
Company, effective December 9, 2021.
Ms. Gonzalez is expected to serve for an initial term expiring at the 2024
Annual Meeting and Ms. Faginas-Cody is expected to serve for an initial term
expiring at the 2022 Annual Meeting, where each may be included as one of the
director nominees for election at the respective Annual Meetings, or until their
successors are duly elected and qualified. The election of Ms. Gonzalez and Ms.
Faginas-Cody fills two vacancies on the Company's Board of Directors that were
created as a result of an increase in the size of the Board from nine (9) to
eleven (11) directors. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee intends
to consider and make recommendations to the Board regarding the appointment of
both Ms. Gonzalez and Ms. Faginas-Cody to one or more committees of the Board,
to be determined at a future Board meeting.
Ms. Gonzalez is currently Senior Vice President, Global Marketing &
Communications for Concentrix Corporation and brings nearly thirty years of
valuable marketing experience to the Board. Ms. Faginas-Cody is an accomplished
senior IT executive with nearly forty-three years of experience in corporate
enterprise business systems. Ms. Faginas-Cody recently retired from Walt Disney
Company as its former Senior Vice President, Information Technology Enterprise
Business Systems.
Ms. Gonzalez and Ms. Faginas-Cody will receive the same compensation as is paid
to other non-employee directors of the Company.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure
On December 13, 2021, the Company issued a press release entitled "El Pollo Loco
Appoints Deborah Gonzalez and Nancy Faginas-Cody to the Board of Directors," a
copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit
No. Description
99.1 Press release dated December 13, 2021
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