secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ASCENT INDUSTRIES CO. (ACNT)
CIK:        0000095953
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-02-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000095953-24-000002
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ascent Industries appoints Bryan Kitchen as CEO, Ryan Kavalauskas as CFO
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- Kitchen (former Chemicals President) succeeds Chris Hutter, who remains on board.
- Kavalauskas (former Chemicals VP FP&A) succeeds Bill Steckel, who resigned Feb 9.
- Kitchen receives $500k base salary, 100% target bonus, and $250k one-time RSU grant.
- Kavalauskas receives $350k base salary, 50% target bonus, and $150k one-time RSU grant.
- Board size increased to six; Kitchen appointed as director effective Feb 14, 2024.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95953/000009595324000002/0000095953-24-000002-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95953/000009595324000002/acnt-20240209.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000095953-24-000002

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