---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-001112"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SON"
cik: "0000091767"
company_name: "SONOCO PRODUCTS CO"
filed_at: "2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T12:01:19.377833+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonoco CFO Dillard departs Jan 3; Cheatham appointed interim CFO; other senior changes

## Summary
- CFO Rob Dillard separated Jan 3, 2025; will receive severance under company's Executive Officer Severance Plan.
- Interim CFO Jerry Cheatham, 36-year veteran, appointed; base salary increased to $500k, target incentive at 50%.
- Company conducting retained search for permanent CFO, considering internal and external candidates.
- Shawn Munday named VP of Strategic Finance overseeing treasury, tax, M&A; John Florence expands role to North America Paper.
- Roger Schrum named interim Head of Investor Relations replacing Lisa Weeks who leaves end of Jan 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-001112
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SON
- cik: 0000091767
- company_name: SONOCO PRODUCTS CO
- filed_at: 2025-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925001112/0001104659-25-001112-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925001112/tm251988d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001112
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001112.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001112.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jerry A. Cheatham was appointed as interim Chief Financial Officer at SONOCO PRODUCTS CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Jerry A. Cheatham, the Vice President of Global Finance for the Company’s Industrial Paper Packaging segment and a 36-year finance leader within the Company, was appointed to the role of interim Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925001112/0001104659-25-001112-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert R. Dillard departed as Chief Financial Officer at SONOCO PRODUCTS CO.
  - Action: separated
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Robert R. Dillard separated from his position as the Chief Financial Officer of Sonoco Products Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925001112/0001104659-25-001112-index.htm

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