---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000105132-23-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WDFC"
cik: "0000105132"
company_name: "WD 40 CO"
filed_at: "2023-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T01:35:50.066279+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WD-40 CFO Sara Hyzer adds principal accounting officer role; Partlo steps down May 1

## Summary
- Rae Ann Partlo steps down as principal accounting officer effective May 1, 2023, for personal reasons; no disagreement.
- Partlo remains VP, Corporate Controller; plans to retire from WD-40 during calendar 2024.
- Sara K. Hyzer, current CFO (since Nov 2022), appointed principal accounting officer effective May 1.
- Hyzer joined WD-40 in Aug 2021; previously an audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2015 to 2021.
- No new compensatory arrangements were made for Hyzer in connection with the appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000105132-23-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WDFC
- cik: 0000105132
- company_name: WD 40 CO
- filed_at: 2023-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/105132/000010513223000009/0000105132-23-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/105132/000010513223000009/wdfc-20230313x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000105132-23-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sara K. Hyzer was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at WD 40 CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Sara K. Hyzer was appointed to serve in this capacity, effective May 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/105132/000010513223000009/0000105132-23-000009-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rae Ann Partlo changed role as Principal Accounting Officer at WD 40 CO.
  - Action: step down
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 13, 2023, Rae Ann Partlo informed WD-40 Company ("Company") that she would step down as the Company's principal accounting officer, effective May 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/105132/000010513223000009/0000105132-23-000009-index.htm

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