Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Appointment of Susan Johnson to Board of Directors
Effective October 26, 2020, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of National
Vision Holdings, Inc. ("National Vision" or the "Company") increased the size of
the Board by one director (to a total size of eight directors) and filled the
vacancy created by such increase by appointing Susan Somersille Johnson, age 54,
as a Class I director, effective October 26, 2020. Ms. Johnson will hold office
until the date of the Company's 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until
her successor shall be elected and qualified or until her earlier death,
resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal. Ms. Johnson will serve on
the audit committee.
Ms. Johnson serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Prudential Financial, Inc.
Ms. Johnson previously served from 2014 to 2020 as Executive Vice President and
Chief Marketing Officer of Truist Financial, the bank holding company formed in
2019 following the merger of Sun Trust Banks, Inc. and BB&T. Prior to that, Ms.
Johnson served as the Vice President of Global Marketing at NCR Corp. from 2012
to 2014. From 2007 to 2012, Ms. Johnson served as the Global Head of Operator
Marketing at Nokia and previously held leadership roles in a number of
technology organizations, including Nuance Communications, Fujitsu and Apple.
Ms. Johnson was selected to our Board because of her marketing and branding
expertise, along with her executive experience in technology and financial
services.
The Board has determined that Ms. Johnson qualifies as an independent director
under the corporate governance standards of NASDAQ and the independence
requirements of Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act. Ms. Johnson was not appointed to
the Board pursuant to any arrangement or understanding with any other person.
Ms. Johnson has no family relationships with any director or executive officer
of the Company and there are no transactions in which Ms. Johnson has an
interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Ms. Johnson will be entitled to the annual compensation paid to independent
non-employee directors, consisting of a cash retainer of $75,000 (prorated for
2020), payable quarterly in arrears, and $100,000 paid in restricted stock
pursuant to the National Vision Holdings, Inc. 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the
"Omnibus Incentive Plan"). In connection with her appointment to the Board on
October 26, 2020, Ms. Johnson was granted a $100,000 restricted stock award of
the Company's common stock pursuant to the Omnibus Incentive Plan, which will
vest in three equal installments on each of the first, second and third
anniversaries of the grant date, subject to continued service through the
applicable vesting date.
The Company and Ms. Johnson will enter into the Company's standard form of
indemnification agreement for directors, a copy of which was previously filed as
Exhibit 10.36 to Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File
No. 333-220719) and is incorporated herein by reference.


Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
A copy of the press release issued by the Company announcing the appointment of
Ms. Johnson described in Item 5.02 is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current
Report and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information included in this Current Report on Form 8-K is being furnished
under Item 7.01, "Regulation FD Disclosure" of Form 8-K. As such, the
information herein shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purposes of Section
18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or
otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section, nor shall it be
incorporated by reference into a filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific
reference in such a filing.


Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)  Exhibits.
See the Exhibit Index immediately preceding the signature page hereto, which is
incorporated herein by reference.

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