---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-060329"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "SON"
cik: "0000091767"
company_name: "SONOCO PRODUCTS CO"
filed_at: "2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T05:48:41.678003+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonoco appoints Paul Joachimczyk as CFO effective June 30, 2025

## Summary
- Paul Joachimczyk named CFO effective June 30, 2025; interim CFO Jerry Cheatham remains until Q2 filing.
- Joachimczyk previously SVP, CFO and Corporate Secretary at American Woodmark (AMWD) since July 2020.
- Compensation: $750k base salary, 85% bonus target, $1M cash sign-on bonus (clawback within 24 months), $1M RSU grant vesting over 3 years.
- Cheatham will serve as principal financial officer until Q2 10-Q filing, then assume senior finance leadership role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-060329
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: SON
- cik: 0000091767
- company_name: SONOCO PRODUCTS CO
- filed_at: 2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925060329/0001104659-25-060329-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925060329/tm2518263d1_8ka.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul Joachimczyk was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at SONOCO PRODUCTS CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On June 17, 2025, the Company appointed Paul Joachimczyk to the role of Chief Financial Officer, effective June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925060329/0001104659-25-060329-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jerry A. Cheatham changed role as senior finance leadership role at SONOCO PRODUCTS CO.
  - Action: assumed
  - Role: senior finance leadership role
  source text: Jerry A. Cheatham, the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, will continue to serve as principal financial officer until the filing of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ending June 29, 2025, following which Mr. Joachimczyk will assume the role of principal financial officer and Mr. Cheatham will assume a senior finance leadership role with the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91767/000110465925060329/0001104659-25-060329-index.htm

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