---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001043337-25-000067"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SRI"
cik: "0001043337"
company_name: "STONERIDGE INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T17:41:25.952638+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Two long-serving Stoneridge directors to retire at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- George S. Mayes Jr. (since 2012) and Paul J. Schlather (since 2009) will not seek re-election.
- Board will not fill the vacancies, reducing membership from nine to seven.
- Retirements are for personal reasons; both will continue serving until the 2025 annual meeting.
- Mayes chaired the Compliance and Ethics Committee; Schlather brought financial oversight expertise.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001043337-25-000067
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SRI
- cik: 0001043337
- company_name: STONERIDGE INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-14T23:59:59+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/1043337/000104333725000067/0001043337-25-000067-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043337/000104333725000067/sri-20250310.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001043337-25-000067
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001043337-25-000067.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001043337-25-000067.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul J. Schlather departed as Director at STONERIDGE INC.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 10, 2025, both Paul J. Schlather and George S. Mayes, Jr., members of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), informed the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee that they would continue to serve on the Board until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders but requested not to be named as a candidate on the Board’s slate of nominees for re-election in 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043337/000104333725000067/0001043337-25-000067-index.htm
- Executive change
  George S. Mayes, Jr. departed as Director at STONERIDGE INC.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 10, 2025, both Paul J. Schlather and George S. Mayes, Jr., members of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), informed the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee that they would continue to serve on the Board until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders but requested not to be named as a candidate on the Board’s slate of nominees for re-election in 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043337/000104333725000067/0001043337-25-000067-index.htm

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