---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000910406-23-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAIN"
cik: "0000910406"
company_name: "HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T23:23:44.892245+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hain Celestial appoints Michael Ragusa as CAO; designates Boulder office as temporary HQ

## Summary
- Michael J. Ragusa named SVP, Chief Accounting Officer effective March 20, 2023.
- Annual base salary of $340,000; bonus target 40% of base; LTIP award prorated for FY2023.
- Previously CAO at Livekindly, Cole Haan, TerraForm Power; CPA and CGMA.
- Board designated 4600 Sleepytime Dr, Boulder as temporary principal office effective March 17, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000910406-23-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAIN
- cik: 0000910406
- company_name: HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/910406/000091040623000023/0000910406-23-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/910406/000091040623000023/hain-20230317.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000910406-23-000023
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000910406-23-000023.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000910406-23-000023.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael J. Ragusa was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 20, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Michael J. Ragusa as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/910406/000091040623000023/0000910406-23-000023-index.htm

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