---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000939930-25-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PYYX"
cik: "0000939930"
company_name: "PYXUS INTERNATIONAL, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T09:57:19.522381+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pyxus CAO Philip Garofolo resigns; Controller Meredith named as successor effective June 27

## Summary
- Philip C. Garofolo resigns as SVP Finance and CAO effective June 27, 2025 to accept external employment; no disagreement or irregularities cited.
- Board designates Christopher G. Meredith, Corporate Controller since June 2022, as principal accounting officer effective June 27, 2025.
- Meredith, age 40, joined Pyxus in 2019 as Director of Financial Reporting; previously a senior manager at KPMG and a CPA in North Carolina.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000939930-25-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PYYX
- cik: 0000939930
- company_name: PYXUS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/939930/000093993025000040/0000939930-25-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/939930/000093993025000040/pyx-20250611.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher G. Meredith was appointed as Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer at PYXUS INTERNATIONAL, INC..
  - Action: designated
  - Role: Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer
  source text: On June 12, 2025, the Company's Board of Directors designated Christopher G. Meredith, the Company's Corporate Controller, as the Company's principal accounting officer, effective on June 27, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/939930/000093993025000040/0000939930-25-000040-index.htm
- Executive change
  Philip C. Garofolo resigned as Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at PYXUS INTERNATIONAL, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 11, 2025, Philip C. Garofolo, Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of Pyxus International, Inc. (the "Company"), resigned from his positions with the Company effective June 27, 2025 to accept employment with another company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/939930/000093993025000040/0000939930-25-000040-index.htm

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