---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000916540-24-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAR"
cik: "0000916540"
company_name: "DARLING INGREDIENTS INC."
filed_at: "2024-09-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T04:49:25.059059+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darling Ingredients elects Randy Hill to board as independent director

## Summary
- Randy Hill elected to board effective September 13, 2024; board size increased to ten.
- Hill will serve on the Audit and Sustainability Committees; deemed independent.
- Standard non-employee director compensation: $100k annual retainer + $150k RSU grant, prorated.
- Hill is a partner at Opportune LLP and former KPMG audit partner.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000916540-24-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAR
- cik: 0000916540
- company_name: DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.
- filed_at: 2024-09-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654024000026/0000916540-24-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654024000026/dar-20240913.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-24-000026
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-24-000026.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-24-000026.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Randy L. Hill was elected as Director at DARLING INGREDIENTS INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 13, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Darling Ingredients Inc. (the “Company”) elected Randy L. Hill to the Board and appointed him as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee and Sustainability Committee, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654024000026/0000916540-24-000026-index.htm

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