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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000844965-25-000063"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TTI"
cik: "0000844965"
company_name: "TETRA TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:10:59.077385+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# TETRA Technologies appoints Katherine Kokenes as VP and Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Katherine Kokenes appointed VP – Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer, effective September 29, 2025.
- Elijio Serrano remains CFO and principal financial officer; transfers CAO duties to Kokenes.
- Annual base salary of $330,000; target cash bonus of 60% of salary; guaranteed minimum $75,000 bonus for 2025.
- Granted inducement award of 29,645 restricted stock units; vesting begins September 29, 2026 with staggered schedule.
- Kokenes previously served as VP and CAO at Independence Contract Drilling; holds CPA and BBA from UT Arlington.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000844965-25-000063
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TTI
- cik: 0000844965
- company_name: TETRA TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-01T23:59:59+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/844965/000084496525000063/0000844965-25-000063-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/844965/000084496525000063/tti-20250929.htm

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