---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-152389"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COHR"
cik: "0000820318"
company_name: "COHERENT CORP."
filed_at: "2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T07:00:20.679314+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coherent appoints James Anderson as CEO, succeeding Vincent Mattera

## Summary
- James Anderson named CEO effective June 3, 2024; joins board as Class One director.
- Base salary $1.06M, target bonus 150%, inducement equity awards worth $48M total.
- Anderson previously CEO of Lattice Semiconductor; drove record operating profits and gross margins.
- Vincent Mattera retires as CEO and board member under previously disclosed succession agreement.
- Inducement equity includes $8.4M RSUs (time-vesting) and $39.6M PSUs (rTSR-based).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-152389
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COHR
- cik: 0000820318
- company_name: COHERENT CORP.
- filed_at: 2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 99.1, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524152389/0001193125-24-152389-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524152389/d845190d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-152389
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-152389.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-152389.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James R. Anderson was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at COHERENT CORP..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On June 3, 2024, the Company announced the appointment of James R. Anderson as CEO of the Company, effective June 3, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524152389/0001193125-24-152389-index.htm
- Executive change
  Vincent D. Mattera, Jr. resigned as Chief Executive Officer at COHERENT CORP..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: In compliance with his CEO Succession and Retirement Agreement dated February 17, 2024, Dr. Mattera resigned as a Class One member of the Board immediately before the Start Date
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524152389/0001193125-24-152389-index.htm

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