Published mark
Darden Restaurants
DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC
NYSE: DRI. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.
US
Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
- Alpha ID
- alpha:company:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6
- SEC CIK
- 0000940944
- Website
- www.darden.com Open
- Record version
- vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 15, 2026
- Newest evidence
- Aug 10, 2026
- Monitoring
- Not yet monitored Details
- Integrity
- Not yet signed Methodology
- CEO
- Ricardo CardenasPresident and Chief Executive Officer
- Chair
- Not published
- Independent
- Not published
- Published claims
- 445 distinct sources
- Evidence records
- 150 pinned
- Source conflicts
- 0None open
Built from 5 distinct sources and 15 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.
CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed
Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works
Monitoring
ContinuousWhat the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.
- IdentityunclaimedPublished
- Evidencesource_reportedPublished
- Evaluationnot_evaluatedPublished
- MonitoringNot yet published for this record.Not published
- AuthorityNot yet published for this record.Not published
- FreshnesscurrentPublished
Leadership
Evidence| Role | Person | Since | Status | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group President | M. John Martin | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE13 |
| Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer | Rajesh Vennam | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE13 |
| President and Chief Executive Officer | Ricardo Cardenas | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE13 |
| Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer | Sarah H. King | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE13 |
| Group President and President, Chuy's | Todd A. Burrowes | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE13 |
Board of directors
Evidence| Director | Status | Since | Committees | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles M. Sonsteby | Independence not published | Not published | AuditAudit; Finance; Nominating and GovernanceFinanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE3 |
| Cynthia T. Jamison | Independence not published | Not published | None published | Source reportedE4 |
| Darden Restaurants | Independent | Not published | None published | Source reportedE5 |
| Daryl A. Kenningham | Independence not published | Not published | AuditAudit; CompensationCompensation | Source reportedE6 |
| Eugene I. Lee | Independent | Not published | None published | Source reportedE5 |
| Jane Fogarty | Independence not published | Not published | FinanceFinance; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE7 |
| Juliana L. Chugg | Independence not published | Not published | AuditAudit; Nominating and Governance · ChairNominating and Governance, chair | Source reportedE8 |
| Margaret Shn Atkins | Independence not published | Not published | Audit, chairAudit · Chair; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE9 |
| Ricardo Cardenas | Independence not published | Not published | None published | Source reportedE10 |
| Timothy J. Wilmott | Independence not published | Not published | Compensation, chairCompensation · Chair; FinanceFinance | Source reportedE11 |
| William S. Simon | Independence not published | Not published | AuditAudit; CompensationCompensation | Source reportedE12 |
Committees and risk ownership
Evidence| Committee | Chair | Members | Risks assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit | Margaret Shn Atkins | Margaret Shn Atkins, Charles M. Sonsteby, Daryl A. Kenningham, Juliana L. Chugg, William S. Simon | Not described in the published record |
| Audit · Chair; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Margaret Shn Atkins | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Compensation | Not published | Daryl A. Kenningham, William S. Simon | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Finance; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Charles M. Sonsteby | financial |
| Audit; Nominating and Governance · Chair | Not published | Juliana L. Chugg | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation | Timothy J. Wilmott | Timothy J. Wilmott, Daryl A. Kenningham, William S. Simon | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation · Chair; Finance | Not published | Timothy J. Wilmott | financial |
| Finance | Not published | Charles M. Sonsteby, Jane Fogarty, Timothy J. Wilmott | financial |
| Finance; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Jane Fogarty | financial |
| Nominating and Governance | Juliana L. Chugg | Juliana L. Chugg, Charles M. Sonsteby, Jane Fogarty, Margaret Shn Atkins | Not described in the published record |
Committee RecordAudit: Chair Margaret Shn Atkins; Members Margaret Shn Atkins (Chair); Charles M. Sonsteby; Daryl A. Kenningham; Juliana L. Chugg; William S. Simon
Committee AppointmentMargaret Shn Atkins: chair, Audit
Committee AppointmentCharles M. Sonsteby: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentDaryl A. Kenningham: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentJuliana L. Chugg: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentWilliam S. Simon: member, Audit
Committee RecordCompensation: Chair Timothy J. Wilmott; Members Timothy J. Wilmott (Chair); Daryl A. Kenningham; William S. Simon
Committee AppointmentTimothy J. Wilmott: chair, Compensation
Committee AppointmentDaryl A. Kenningham: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentWilliam S. Simon: member, Compensation
Committee RecordFinance: Chair not stated; Members Charles M. Sonsteby; Jane Fogarty; Timothy J. Wilmott
Committee AppointmentCharles M. Sonsteby: member, Finance
Committee AppointmentJane Fogarty: member, Finance
Committee AppointmentTimothy J. Wilmott: member, Finance
Committee RecordNominating and Governance: Chair Juliana L. Chugg; Members Juliana L. Chugg (Chair); Charles M. Sonsteby; Jane Fogarty; Margaret Shn Atkins
Committee AppointmentJuliana L. Chugg: chair, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentCharles M. Sonsteby: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentJane Fogarty: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentMargaret Shn Atkins: member, Nominating and Governance
Control and voting power
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Authority to act
Evidence and agent registryWho can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.
Principal executive officerRicardo Cardenas, President and Chief Executive Officer
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
Financials and market context
EvidenceIndex MembershipS&P 500 (SPX)
Security ListingDRI (NYSE)
Index memberships1 membership attached to a specific security and listing.Announcements, effective dates, and removals remain distinct states; Alpha does not infer membership from company size, exchange, or reputation.
SPX
Source reportedAs of Oct 16, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.
| Index | Security | Status | Effective | Verification | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 (S&P Dow Jones Indices) | NYSE: DRI | current | May 31, 1995 | inferred | Slickcharts S&P 500 constituent table (public observation, not S&P DJI license) |
Governance and policies
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Risk, audit, and cyber
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
AI oversight and accountability
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Legal and regulatory
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Compensation
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Other published claims
EvidencePublished Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.
Legal NameDARDEN RESTAURANTS INC
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Official Websitehttps://www.darden.com
Published FactUS
Published FactFL
Published FactConsumer Discretionary
Published Facthttps://www.darden.com
Not yet in this record
CoverageA gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.
- Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
- OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
- FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
- CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
- GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
- Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
- AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
- LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
- RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
- CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
- AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
- EventsInsufficient evidence. Governance events are derived from temporal changes in governed records.
- Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
- Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
- This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.
Linked people
Same claims as person records- M. John MartinGroup Presidentcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:20
- Rajesh VennamSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officercompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:21
- Ricardo CardenasPresident and Chief Executive Officer; Directorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:22, company:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:17
- Sarah H. KingSenior Vice President, Chief People Officercompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:23
- Todd A. BurrowesGroup President and President, Chuy'scompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:24
- Charles M. SonstebyDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:9
- Cynthia T. JamisonDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:10
- Darden RestaurantsMembercompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:11
- Daryl A. KenninghamDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:12
- Eugene I. LeeMembercompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:13
- Jane FogartyDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:14
- Juliana L. ChuggDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:15
- Margaret Shn AtkinsDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:16
- Timothy J. WilmottDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:18
- William S. SimonDirectorcompany:417193e5-8231-4406-9b82-6d173fe3e4d6:leadership_role:19
Subject and corrections
Public-role doctrineThis record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.
- Basis
- Published company record built from public sources
- Sources
- 15 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
- Never published
- Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
- Record claimed
- No
- Open disputes
- 0
- Identity ownership
- unclaimed
Claiming not yet available
If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.
Evidence
Authority and rights- E1Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 15, 2026. Cited by 6 Claims.
- E2DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC Form 10-K (filed 2026-07-24). SEC filing. Retrieved Aug 29, 2026. Cited by 2 Claims.
- E3sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E4sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E5sec proxy. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved Mar 23, 2026. Cited by 2 Claims.
- E6sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E7sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E8sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E9sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E10sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E11sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E12sec filing. Published Aug 4, 2025. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E13sec def 14a. Published Aug 10, 2026. Retrieved Sep 14, 2026. Cited by 5 Claims.
- E14board_seats. sp500-board-director-completeness-remediation-2026-05-15. Cited by 19 Claims.
- E15Slickcharts S&P 500 constituent table (public observation, not S&P DJI license). index provider. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
Version history
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 15, 2026No published record changes are available in this projection.