MSA Safety Incorporated filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Financial Statements and Exhibits
$MSA
Industrial Specialties
Health Care
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 13, 2025
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Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. | ||||
(b) Departure of Certain Officers
(c) Appointment of Certain Officers
Lee B. McChesney, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, has notified the Company that he will resign effective March 21, 2025, to pursue another business opportunity. Mr. McChesney’s departure is not a result of any disagreement with the Company or its Board of Directors relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices or any issues regarding its accounting policies or practices.
The Company has initiated a comprehensive search for a replacement and until one is found the Company’s Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis and Strategy, Elyse L. Brody, will act as interim Chief Financial Officer effective March 21, 2025, in addition to her current role with the Company. In connection with her appointment as interim Chief Financial Officer, adjustments have been made to Ms. Brody’s annual base salary and long-term equity compensation.
Ms. Brody, 37, joined the Company in 2011 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in the Company’s Finance organization during her tenure. Prior to her current role, from November 2020 to August 2022 Ms. Brody served as Director, Global Financial Planning and Analysis and Strategy, and prior thereto served as Director of Investor Relations from March 2018 to November 2020.
There are no family relationships between Ms. Brody and any executive officer or director of the Company, no understandings or arrangements between Ms. Brody and any other person pursuant to which she was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer, and Ms. Brody has no transactions reportable under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
The Company’s press release announcing the changes is filed as an exhibit to this report.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. | ||||
(d) The following exhibits are furnished with this report on Form 8-K.
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| 99.1 | MSA Safety Incorporated Press Release dated March 13, 2025. | ||||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | ||||
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
MSA SAFETY INCORPORATED | |||||||||||
(Registrant) | |||||||||||
By | /s/ Richard W. Roda | ||||||||||
Richard W. Roda | |||||||||||
Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer | |||||||||||
March 13, 2025
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No. Description
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document)