---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-21-041699"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMP"
cik: "0000093389"
company_name: "STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS, INC."
filed_at: "2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T01:07:12.659914+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Standard Motor Products appoints Pamela Puryear as independent director

## Summary
- Board increased from 9 to 10 directors; Puryear independent, serves on Audit, Compensation, Nominating, and Strategic Planning Committees.
- Puryear received a restricted stock award of 440 shares and an equity award valued at $24,200 on a pro rata basis.
- Puryear, age 58, previously EVP/Global CHRO at Walgreens Boots Alliance, SVP/CHRO at Zimmer Biomet, and SVP/Chief Talent Officer at Pfizer.
- Also serves on boards of Rockley Photonics Holdings and NextGen Healthcare; holds BA from Yale, MBA from Harvard, Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-21-041699
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMP
- cik: 0000093389
- company_name: STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93389/000114036121041699/0001140361-21-041699-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93389/000114036121041699/brhc10031886_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-21-041699.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pamela Puryear was appointed as Director at STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Pamela Puryear, Ph.D., as a new director to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93389/000114036121041699/0001140361-21-041699-index.htm

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