---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000101984-25-000249"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UEIC"
cik: "0000101984"
company_name: "UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T11:57:24.101200+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Universal Electronics names Wade Jenke CFO effective December 30, 2025

## Summary
- Wade Jenke appointed CFO effective Dec 30, 2025; interim CFO Raymond Ho returns to SVP of Finance.
- Jenke previously CFO of Amtech Systems (ASYS) from Aug 2024 to Dec 2025 and CFO of EMS Group, an ASSA ABLOY unit.
- Compensation: $325K base salary, 40% bonus target, option for 100K shares vesting over 3 years, and 200K PSUs.
- Jenke is a CPA, PMP, and Six Sigma Black Belt with B.S. and MBA from Arizona State University.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000101984-25-000249
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UEIC
- cik: 0000101984
- company_name: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-30T23:59:59+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/101984/000010198425000249/0000101984-25-000249-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101984/000010198425000249/ueic-20251230.htm

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