---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-069775"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMP"
cik: "0001227654"
company_name: "COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2024-06-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T05:15:01.366626+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Compass Minerals appoints Jeffrey Cathey as CFO; Lorin Crenshaw departs

## Summary
- CFO Lorin Crenshaw left effective June 7, 2024; no dispute over accounting or reporting.
- Jeffrey Cathey, formerly Chief Accounting Officer (since Dec 2023), appointed CFO same day.
- Cathey receives $400K base salary, 70% target bonus, and $600K LTIP equity target.
- One-time promotion grants: $62.5K RSUs vesting ratably over 3 years and $62.5K PSUs cliff-vesting at 3 years.
- Cathey previously spent 10 years at Crestwood Equity Partners LP as principal accounting officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-069775
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMP
- cik: 0001227654
- company_name: COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2024-06-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465924069775/0001104659-24-069775-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465924069775/tm2416734d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-069775.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Cathey was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective June 7, 2024, the Company appointed Jeffrey Cathey as its new Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465924069775/0001104659-24-069775-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lorin Crenshaw departed as Chief Financial Officer at COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC.
  - Action: ceased to serve
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective June 7, 2024, Lorin Crenshaw ceased to serve as Chief Financial Officer of Compass Minerals International, Inc. (the “Company”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227654/000110465924069775/0001104659-24-069775-index.htm

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