---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-029609"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IFF"
cik: "0000051253"
company_name: "INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T18:35:22.336850+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IFF appoints Marc Birenkrant as Controller & CAO; Beril Yildiz to leave Dec 31, 2025

## Summary
- Marc Birenkrant named Controller & Chief Accounting Officer effective Aug 10, 2025; has 30+ years of finance experience at IFF since 2008.
- Beril Yildiz, SVP & CAO since 2022, will transition and depart IFF by Dec 31, 2025.
- Birenkrant is a CPA and previously held roles including VP, Assistant Controller at IFF and Director of Accounting at Wendy's.
- Yildiz's departure qualifies as a severance event under the company's executive severance policy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-029609
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IFF
- cik: 0000051253
- company_name: INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000114036125029609/0001140361-25-029609-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000114036125029609/ef20053447_8k.htm

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