---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-054483"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALKS"
cik: "0001520262"
company_name: "Alkermes plc."
filed_at: "2025-04-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T13:20:52.061022+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alkermes CFO Iain M. Brown passes away; interim leadership continues

## Summary
- CFO Iain M. Brown died on April 14, 2025, after a battle with cancer; on medical leave since Feb. 2024.
- Blair C. Jackson (EVP, COO) and Samuel J. Parisi (VP, Finance) continue as interim principal financial and accounting officers.
- Company will search for a permanent CFO successor; interim roles remain unchanged.
- Brown served 22 years at Alkermes; board and management express condolences.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-054483
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALKS
- cik: 0001520262
- company_name: Alkermes plc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520262/000095017025054483/0000950170-25-054483-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520262/000095017025054483/alks-20250414.htm

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