---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-008653"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MIDD"
cik: "0000769520"
company_name: "MIDDLEBY Corp"
filed_at: "2024-01-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T23:37:45.331840+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Middleby expands board to 9, appoints Scherger and Shah as directors

## Summary
- Board increased from 7 to 9 members; Scherger (CFO of Graphic Packaging) and Shah (Global CIO of Fluence Energy) appointed.
- Scherger brings expertise in audit, acquisitions, distribution, and capital strategies; led Graphic Packaging growth from $4B to $10B.
- Shah brings deep knowledge in cybersecurity, IoT, digital transformation, and electrification/energy management.
- Both will receive standard nonemployee director compensation; no arrangements or related party transactions with any person.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-008653
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MIDD
- cik: 0000769520
- company_name: MIDDLEBY Corp
- filed_at: 2024-01-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769520/000119312524008653/0001193125-24-008653-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769520/000119312524008653/d75462d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-008653
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-008653.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-008653.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Steven R. Scherger was appointed as Director at MIDDLEBY Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 12, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Middleby Corporation (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from seven (7) to nine (9) directors and appointed Tejas P. Shah and Steven R. Scherger as directors of the Company to fill the vacancies so created.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769520/000119312524008653/0001193125-24-008653-index.htm
- Executive change
  Tejas P. Shah was appointed as Director at MIDDLEBY Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 12, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Middleby Corporation (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from seven (7) to nine (9) directors and appointed Tejas P. Shah and Steven R. Scherger as directors of the Company to fill the vacancies so created.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769520/000119312524008653/0001193125-24-008653-index.htm

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