---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-011592"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MYE"
cik: "0000069488"
company_name: "MYERS INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T07:24:11.731281+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Myers Industries appoints Grant E. Fitz as EVP and CFO effective May 8, 2023

## Summary
- Fitz brings 30+ years experience; most recently CFO/COO of EFI, prior CFO of Xerox and Valassis.
- Base salary $480,000; cash bonus $300,000; RSUs with grant value $600,000 vesting over 3 years.
- Eligible for annual incentive at 100% base salary target, long-term incentive at 100% base (40% RSUs, 60% performance-based).
- Fitz will assume CFO role from interim CFO Monica Vinay, who served for past 9 months.
- Fitz enters non-compete (12-month) and non-solicitation agreement effective May 8, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-011592
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MYE
- cik: 0000069488
- company_name: MYERS INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000095017023011592/0000950170-23-011592-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000095017023011592/mye-20230403.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-011592.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Grant E. Fitz was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at MYERS INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 3, 2023, Myers Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing the appointment of Grant E. Fitz as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective May 8, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000095017023011592/0000950170-23-011592-index.htm

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