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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000037785-22-000097"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMC"
cik: "0000037785"
company_name: "FMC CORP"
filed_at: "2022-12-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T05:00:12.858057+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FMC CTO Kathleen Shelton to retire Mar 31; Seva Rostovtsev appointed as successor

## Summary
- Dr. Kathleen Shelton to retire as EVP and CTO effective March 31, 2023, after 33-year career.
- Dr. Seva Rostovtsev, currently director of Discovery Chemistry, named VP and CTO effective April 1, 2023.
- Rostovtsev was co-inventor of copper-catalyzed Click Chemistry, awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Shelton led an innovation pipeline valued at over $2.5 billion in peak sales from new products.
- Rostovtsev will report to CEO Mark Douglas and join the company's Operating Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000037785-22-000097
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMC
- cik: 0000037785
- company_name: FMC CORP
- filed_at: 2022-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778522000097/0000037785-22-000097-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778522000097/fmc-20221214.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000037785-22-000097.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kathleen Shelton departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at FMC CORP.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
  source text: On December 14, 2022, FMC Corporation (“FMC” or the “Company”) announced that Dr. Kathleen Shelton will retire from her position as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (“CTO”) of the Company effective March 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778522000097/0000037785-22-000097-index.htm

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