---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000931148-25-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EAF"
cik: "0000931148"
company_name: "GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD"
filed_at: "2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T02:38:42.363141+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GrafTech appoints Eric Roegner to board under cooperation agreement with activist shareholder

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9 directors; Roegner appointed as Class I director effective March 7, 2025.
- Appointment follows cooperation agreement with Nilesh Undavia (owns ~6.7% of EAF) to add an independent candidate.
- Roegner will serve on Audit Committee and Human Resources and Compensation Committee.
- Board to shrink back to 8 directors at 2025 annual meeting; Roegner and Dumas nominated for re-election.
- Roegner brings experience from Amcor, Arconic, and McKinsey; term expires at 2025 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000931148-25-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EAF
- cik: 0000931148
- company_name: GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD
- filed_at: 2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/931148/000093114825000040/0000931148-25-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/931148/000093114825000040/gti-20250307.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000931148-25-000040
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000931148-25-000040.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000931148-25-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric V. Roegner was appointed as Class I Director at GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class I Director
  source text: On March 7, 2025, the Board (i) increased the size of the Board from eight to nine members by adding a Class I directorship and (ii) appointed Eric V. Roegner as a Class I director, effective immediately, to fill the Class I directorship vacancy resulting from the increase of the size of the Board with his initial term expiring at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders of the Company ("2025 Annual Meeting").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/931148/000093114825000040/0000931148-25-000040-index.htm

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