Beyond Meat exec Doug Ramsey leaves company after arrest for allegedly biting man's nose

Beyond Meat's operating chief, Doug Ramsey, near the institution Friday, weeks aft helium was arrested for allegedly biting a man's chemoreceptor pursuing a assemblage shot crippled successful Arkansas.

The institution had primitively suspended Ramsey aft the apprehension became nationalist past month. Beyond Meat revealed Ramsey's exit successful a securities filing Friday morning. CNBC has reached retired to Ramsey for comment.

In September, Ramsey was charged with making terroristic threats and third-degree artillery aft allegedly assaulting a operator successful a parking store adjacent Razorback Stadium successful Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Police said Ramsey punched done the backmost windshield of a Subaru aft it deed the beforehand tyre of Ramsey's car, according to a constabulary report. Ramsey past allegedly punched the Subaru operator and spot his nose, "ripping the soma connected the extremity of the nose," the study said. Police besides said the unfortunate and a witnesser besides claimed Ramsey told the Subaru operator helium would termination him.

Ramsey joined Beyond Meat successful December. He spent 3 decades at Tyson Foods, wherever helium oversaw its poultry and McDonald's businesses. Beyond Meat did not instantly instrumentality petition for remark from CNBC.

The institution said successful the filing said Jonathan Nelson, its elder vice president of manufacturing operations, volition permanently oversee Beyond's operations activities. He took implicit Ramsey's relation connected an interim ground past month.

The filing besides revealed that Chief Financial Officer Philip Hardin stepped down from his station earlier this week. Hardin volition permission the institution aft a astir two-week modulation play to prosecute different opportunity, according to the filing.

Lubi Kutua, antecedently Beyond Meat's vice president for fiscal readying and investigation arsenic good arsenic capitalist relations, assumed the apical fiscal relation connected Thursday.

– CNBC's Amelia Lucas contributed to this report.