---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000101984-25-000042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UEIC"
cik: "0000101984"
company_name: "UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T07:53:24.799712+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Paul Arling to retire by April 30, 2025; no successor announced

## Summary
- Paul D. Arling steps down as CEO effective April 30, 2025 or earlier if new CEO starts.
- Arling remains Chairman until the May 27, 2025 annual meeting.
- Severance package: $275,000 cash and health benefits through April 2026.
- Consulting agreement for transition services May–June 2025 at $140,000.
- Unvested equity awards fully accelerated on separation; no replacement CEO named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000101984-25-000042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UEIC
- cik: 0000101984
- company_name: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101984/000010198425000042/0000101984-25-000042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101984/000010198425000042/ueic-20250319.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000101984-25-000042
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000101984-25-000042.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000101984-25-000042.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul D. Arling departed as Chief Executive Officer at UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 19, 2025, Paul D. Arling informed the Board of Directors of Universal Electronics Inc. (the “Company”) that he would retire from his position as Chief Executive Officer the Company, effective as of the earlier of April 30, 2025, or the date a new Chief Executive Officer commences employment with the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101984/000010198425000042/0000101984-25-000042-index.htm

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