---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-061386"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NX"
cik: "0001423221"
company_name: "Quanex Building Products CORP"
filed_at: "2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T23:29:18.555647+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Quanex appoints Karen Ettredge as principal accounting officer, replacing Mark Livingston

## Summary
- Mark Livingston resigned as VP, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller effective May 15, 2023, to pursue other interests; no disagreement with Company.
- Karen Ettredge, age 42, named VP and Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer, effective same date.
- Ettredge joined Quanex in 2015 as SEC Reporting Manager, served as Director of SEC Reporting and Assistant Controller since 2020.
- She will become eligible for executive severance policy as Tier 2 participant, subject to Compensation Committee formal approval.
- Ettredge holds BBA and MBA from Texas Tech, is a CPA, and has no familial or related-party relationships with Company officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-061386
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NX
- cik: 0001423221
- company_name: Quanex Building Products CORP
- filed_at: 2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000110465923061386/0001104659-23-061386-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000110465923061386/tm2315943d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Karen Ettredge was appointed as Vice President and Corporate Controller at Quanex Building Products CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President and Corporate Controller
  source text: On May 15, 2023, Karen Ettredge was named the Company’s Vice President and Corporate Controller and will serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000110465923061386/0001104659-23-061386-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mark Livingston resigned as Vice-President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Quanex Building Products CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Vice-President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: On May 15, 2023, Mark Livingston, Vice-President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of Quanex Building Products Corporation (the “Company”), resigned from his position to pursue other interests, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1423221/000110465923061386/0001104659-23-061386-index.htm

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