---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-051610"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRLB"
cik: "0001443669"
company_name: "Proto Labs Inc"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:23:34.953213+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Protolabs appoints Suresh Krishna as CEO; reaffirms Q2 2025 guidance

## Summary
- Suresh Krishna appointed President, CEO, and director effective May 20, 2025, succeeding Robert Bodor.
- Krishna's employment agreement: $800,000 base salary, 100% target bonus, and equity grants totaling $4.4M (RSUs, options, PSUs, inducement awards).
- Robert Bodor departs as CEO and director; consulting agreement through May 25, 2025 at $700/hour.
- Shareholders approved amendment to 2022 LTIP, increasing shares by 296,000; all director nominees elected.
- Q2 2025 outlook reaffirmed: revenue $124M-$132M, diluted EPS $0.11-$0.19, non-GAAP diluted EPS $0.30-$0.38.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-051610
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRLB
- cik: 0001443669
- company_name: Proto Labs Inc
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1443669/000110465925051610/0001104659-25-051610-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1443669/000110465925051610/tm2515767d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert Bodor departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Proto Labs Inc.
  - Action: ceased to be
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Robert Bodor, who ceased to be the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company effective as of the Transition Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1443669/000110465925051610/0001104659-25-051610-index.htm
- Executive change
  Suresh Krishna was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Proto Labs Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company has appointed Suresh Krishna to serve as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 20, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1443669/000110465925051610/0001104659-25-051610-index.htm
- Executive change
  Suresh Krishna was appointed as Director at Proto Labs Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: The Board has also appointed Mr. Krishna to serve as a director of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1443669/000110465925051610/0001104659-25-051610-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Bodor departed as Director at Proto Labs Inc.
  - Action: ceased to be
  - Role: Director
  source text: Robert Bodor, who ceased to be the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company effective as of the Transition Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1443669/000110465925051610/0001104659-25-051610-index.htm

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