---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000920371-25-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SSD"
cik: "0000920371"
company_name: "Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T17:15:57.080075+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Simpson Manufacturing appoints Angela Drake as independent director effective Jan 1, 2025

## Summary
- Angela Drake appointed independent director of Simpson Manufacturing effective Jan 1, 2025.
- Drake will serve on Audit & Finance and Compensation & Leadership Development Committees.
- Drake is CFO of The Toro Company with nearly 30 years of financial management experience.
- She receives a pro-rated RSU award valued at $42,789 on grant date January 1, 2025.
- No material relationships requiring disclosure; independence standards met.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000920371-25-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SSD
- cik: 0000920371
- company_name: Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920371/000092037125000005/0000920371-25-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920371/000092037125000005/ssd-20241231.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000920371-25-000005
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000920371-25-000005.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Angela Drake was appointed as independent, non-employee director at Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: independent, non-employee director
  source text: On December 31, 2024 the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the “Company”), upon recommendation of the Nominating and CSR Committee of the Board, appointed Angela Drake as an independent, non-employee director of the Company, effective on January 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920371/000092037125000005/0000920371-25-000005-index.htm

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