---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-052304"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEOG"
cik: "0000711377"
company_name: "NEOGEN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T18:39:12.417938+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Neogen CEO John Adent to step down; board forms search committee

## Summary
- John Adent will remain CEO/President until successor appointed; then serve as Special Advisor through Oct 31, 2025.
- Transition agreement provides base salary, 2025 annual bonus, and pro-rata 2026 bonus; no new equity grants.
- Special committee (Jim Borel, Thierry Bernard, Jeff Capello) leading CEO search with global executive search firm.
- Outstanding equity awards treated per terms; vested stock options exercisable for 3 years post-separation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-052304
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEOG
- cik: 0000711377
- company_name: NEOGEN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711377/000095017025052304/0000950170-25-052304-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711377/000095017025052304/neog-20250408.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-052304
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-052304.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-052304.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Adent departed as CEO and President at NEOGEN CORP.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: CEO and President
  source text: On April 9, 2025 Neogen Corporation (the “Company”) announced that John Adent, the Company’s CEO and President, will be stepping down.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711377/000095017025052304/0000950170-25-052304-index.htm

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