---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000916540-25-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAR"
cik: "0000916540"
company_name: "DARLING INGREDIENTS INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T10:04:05.191370+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darling Ingredients elects Soren Schroder as independent director

## Summary
- Soren Schroder elected to the board effective Feb. 20, 2025, increasing board size to 11.
- Schroder will serve on the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.
- He receives standard non-employee director compensation: $100k annual retainer plus $150k in RSUs (prorated).
- Schroder previously served as CEO of Bunge Global SA (2013-2019) and held leadership roles at Cargill and Continental Grain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000916540-25-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAR
- cik: 0000916540
- company_name: DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654025000006/0000916540-25-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654025000006/dar-20250220.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-25-000006
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-25-000006.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-25-000006.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Soren Schroder was elected as Director at DARLING INGREDIENTS INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 20, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Darling Ingredients Inc. (the “Company”) elected Soren Schroder to the Board and appointed him as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654025000006/0000916540-25-000006-index.htm

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