---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-199475"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IP"
cik: "0000051434"
company_name: "INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO /NEW/"
filed_at: "2024-08-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T09:53:46.817534+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# International Paper SVP Tom Plath to depart at year-end; no successor named

## Summary
- Tom Plath, SVP of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs, will leave at end of 2024.
- His responsibilities are reassigned immediately; he will serve in advisory role through year-end.
- Plath spent 33 years at IP, named officer in 2013, elected SVP in 2017.
- Replacement has not yet been appointed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-199475
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IP
- cik: 0000051434
- company_name: INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO /NEW/
- filed_at: 2024-08-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51434/000119312524199475/0001193125-24-199475-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51434/000119312524199475/d862228d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-199475.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: c79b8ce802
  claim: Tom Plath departed as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs at INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO /NEW/.
  evidence_excerpt: On August 12, 2024, International Paper Company (“Company”) determined that Tom Plath, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs, will leave the Company at the end of the year.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51434/000119312524199475/0001193125-24-199475-index.htm

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