---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000895419-25-000088"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WOLF"
cik: "0000895419"
company_name: "WOLFSPEED, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:50:14.293289+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wolfspeed appoints Kevin Speirits as interim CFO effective May 30; CFO Neill Reynolds departs

## Summary
- Neill Reynolds, EVP and CFO, departs May 30, 2025; Kevin Speirits appointed interim CFO same day.
- Speirits, 65, was SVP Finance since Feb 2023; receives retention bonuses up to $400K linked to milestones.
- Milestones: service as interim CFO until Sept 2025–Jan 2026, transition support, and debt restructuring oversight.
- Separation severance offered: 12 months salary, target annual bonus, 1 year equity vesting, plus COBRA payments.
- Speirits remains at-will; forfeits and must repay lump sums if terminated for cause or leaves before milestones.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000895419-25-000088
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WOLF
- cik: 0000895419
- company_name: WOLFSPEED, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000089541925000088/0000895419-25-000088-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000089541925000088/wolfspeed-20250523.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Neill P. Reynolds departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at WOLFSPEED, INC..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Neill P. Reynolds, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will depart effective May 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000089541925000088/0000895419-25-000088-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kevin Speirits was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at WOLFSPEED, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Kevin Speirits, currently the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance, will serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer effective May 30, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000089541925000088/0000895419-25-000088-index.htm

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