---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001000623-25-000031"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MATV"
cik: "0001000623"
company_name: "Mativ Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T12:40:18.388473+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mativ announces CHRO departure effective June 1; grants 184k retention RSUs to two executives

## Summary
- Michael Rickheim (CHRO) departs June 1, 2025; treated as involuntary without cause.
- Rickheim gets $1,158,300 cash severance, prorated bonus, 8,130 time-based and 17,826 performance-based RSUs, plus $71,682 outplacement/COBRA.
- Ryan Elwart (Group President) receives 94,828 retention RSUs; Mark Johnson (Chief Legal) gets 89,655 RSUs; all vest May 23, 2027.
- Non-compete applies for one year post-departure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001000623-25-000031
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MATV
- cik: 0001000623
- company_name: Mativ Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000623/000100062325000031/0001000623-25-000031-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000623/000100062325000031/matv-20250523.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001000623-25-000031
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001000623-25-000031.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001000623-25-000031.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael W. Rickheim departed as Chief Human Resources and Communications Officer at Mativ Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: depart
  - Role: Chief Human Resources and Communications Officer
  source text: Michael W. Rickheim, the Company’s Chief Human Resources and Communications Officers, would depart from the Company, effective as of June 1, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000623/000100062325000031/0001000623-25-000031-index.htm

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