---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-22-013087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMP"
cik: "0000093389"
company_name: "STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-04-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T09:39:29.484433+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Standard Motor Products appoints Alejandro Capparelli as independent director; board to shrink upon Ward retirement

## Summary
- Board expanded from 10 to 11 directors; Capparelli appointed effective April 1, 2022.
- Capparelli, 53, is VP of Global Commercial Lifecycle Services at Rockwell Automation.
- He will serve on Audit, Compensation, Nominating, and Strategic Planning committees.
- Board will reduce to 10 directors effective May 19, 2022 upon retirement of Richard Ward.
- Capparelli receives pro-rata retainer, 125 restricted shares, and $6,875 stock award.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-013087
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMP
- cik: 0000093389
- company_name: STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-04-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93389/000114036122013087/0001140361-22-013087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93389/000114036122013087/brhc10036106_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alejandro Cesar Capparelli was appointed as Independent Director at STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Independent Director
  source text: On April 1, 2022, the Board of Directors of Standard Motor Products, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from ten directors to eleven directors and appointed Mr. Alejandro Cesar Capparelli as a new director to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93389/000114036122013087/0001140361-22-013087-index.htm

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