---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000066570-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MSA"
cik: "0000066570"
company_name: "MSA Safety Inc"
filed_at: "2025-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T21:44:40.053295+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CFO Lee McChesney resigns effective March 21, 2025; Elyse Brody named interim CFO

## Summary
- Lee McChesney steps down as CFO effective March 21, 2025 to take similar role at another public company.
- Elyse Brody, 37, Executive Director of FP&A and Strategy, appointed interim CFO effective same date.
- Brody joined MSA in 2011; prior roles include Director of Global FP&A and Director of Investor Relations.
- Company initiates comprehensive external search for a permanent CFO replacement.
- Departure is not due to any disagreement with MSA's operations, policies, or accounting practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000066570-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MSA
- cik: 0000066570
- company_name: MSA Safety Inc
- filed_at: 2025-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657025000009/0000066570-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657025000009/msa-20250313.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000066570-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lee B. McChesney departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at MSA Safety Inc.
  - Action: resign
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657025000009/0000066570-25-000009-index.htm
- Executive change
  Elyse L. Brody was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at MSA Safety Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657025000009/0000066570-25-000009-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.