---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000074046-25-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ODC"
cik: "0000074046"
company_name: "Oil-Dri Corp of America"
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T17:04:49.502573+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Oil-Dri appoints Jonathan Blake as VP, Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Jonathan Blake appointed VP, Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer effective March 17, 2025.
- Blake previously served as Global Corporate Controller at Videojet Technologies (Veralto) since 2018.
- Annual salary of $315,000, bonus target of 30% of salary, and grant of 1,000 restricted shares vesting March 19, 2028.
- Susan Kreh remains CFO/CIO and principal financial officer; she relinquishes principal accounting officer role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000074046-25-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ODC
- cik: 0000074046
- company_name: Oil-Dri Corp of America
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74046/000007404625000035/0000074046-25-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74046/000007404625000035/odc-20250317.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000074046-25-000035
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000074046-25-000035.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000074046-25-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jonathan Blake was appointed as Vice President, Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer at Oil-Dri Corp of America.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer
  source text: On March 17, 2025, Oil-Dri Corporation of America (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Jonathan Blake as Vice President, Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer of the Company, effective March 17, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74046/000007404625000035/0000074046-25-000035-index.htm
- Executive change
  Susan Kreh changed role as principal accounting officer at Oil-Dri Corp of America.
  - Action: relinquished
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Upon Mr. Blake’s appointment as principal accounting officer, Susan Kreh, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer, will no longer continue as principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74046/000007404625000035/0000074046-25-000035-index.htm

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