---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000874238-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STRL"
cik: "0000874238"
company_name: "STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T19:57:33.917532+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sterling Infrastructure appoints Ronald Ballschmiede as interim CFO; Sharon Villaverde departs

## Summary
- Sharon Villaverde ceased as CFO and CAO effective March 14, 2025, without cause, to pursue other opportunities.
- Ronald Ballschmiede, former CFO from 2015 to 2024, named interim CFO and CAO effective immediately.
- Company has initiated a formal search for a permanent CFO.
- Villaverde's departure is not related to any accounting, financial reporting, or internal control disagreements.
- Ballschmiede continues as Executive Vice President, a role he has held since 2015.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000874238-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STRL
- cik: 0000874238
- company_name: STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874238/000087423825000041/0000874238-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874238/000087423825000041/strl-20250314.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000874238-25-000041
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000874238-25-000041.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ronald A. Ballschmiede was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective March 14, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ronald A. Ballschmiede, the Company’s Executive Vice President and former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, as the Company’s interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874238/000087423825000041/0000874238-25-000041-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sharon R. Villaverde departed as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC..
  - Action: ceased serving
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Upon approval of the Board, Sharon R. Villaverde ceased serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, without cause, on March 14, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874238/000087423825000041/0000874238-25-000041-index.htm

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