---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001122976-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVNT"
cik: "0001122976"
company_name: "AVIENT CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:53:14.295050+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avient SVP & President of Specialty Engineered Materials retires effective June 30, 2025

## Summary
- Christopher L. Pederson retires as SVP and President of Specialty Engineered Materials, effective June 30, 2025.
- Successor search underway; no replacement named.
- Pederson led the Specialty Engineered Materials segment of Avient.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001122976-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVNT
- cik: 0001122976
- company_name: AVIENT CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1122976/000112297625000041/0001122976-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1122976/000112297625000041/avnt-20250529.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001122976-25-000041
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001122976-25-000041.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001122976-25-000041.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher L. Pederson retired as Senior Vice President and President of Specialty Engineered Materials at AVIENT CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Senior Vice President and President of Specialty Engineered Materials
  source text: Christopher L. Pederson, Senior Vice President and President of Specialty Engineered Materials, has given notice of his decision to retire from Avient Corporation (the "Company"), effective as of June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1122976/000112297625000041/0001122976-25-000041-index.htm

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