---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000842162-24-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEA"
cik: "0000842162"
company_name: "LEAR CORP"
filed_at: "2024-08-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T10:15:01.281535+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lear Corporation appoints former top auto analyst Rod Lache to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Rod Lache elected to Board effective August 12, 2024; term ends at 2025 annual meeting.
- Most recently Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Wolfe Research (2018-2024); previously 24 years at Deutsche Bank.
- Board size increases from 10 to 11 directors.
- He will receive standard non-employee director compensation per Lear's Outside Directors Compensation Plan.
- No arrangements or understandings with any other persons regarding his election; no related transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000842162-24-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEA
- cik: 0000842162
- company_name: LEAR CORP
- filed_at: 2024-08-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216224000054/0000842162-24-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216224000054/lear-20240808.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000842162-24-000054
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000842162-24-000054.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000842162-24-000054.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 44fbe7d44a
  claim: Rod Lache was elected as Director at LEAR CORP.
  evidence_excerpt: On August 8, 2024, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Lear Corporation (the "Company") elected Rod Lache to the Board, effective August 12, 2024, for a term ending at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216224000054/0000842162-24-000054-index.htm

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