---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-054846"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHD"
cik: "0000313927"
company_name: "CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T19:01:53.855147+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Church & Dwight names Lee McChesney as EVP/CFO effective March 24, 2025; Dierker to become CEO April 2

## Summary
- Lee McChesney (ex-CFO of MSA Safety) joins as EVP & CFO reporting to CEO, replacing Richard Dierker who becomes CEO on April 2.
- Base salary of $700,000; target annual bonus 85% of salary; target LTI award 245% of salary.
- One-time LTI grant of $2.2M in RSUs vesting ratably over two years; three cash sign-on bonuses totaling $617,222 subject to repayment if employment ends within one year.
- McChesney will also receive a Change in Control and Severance Agreement with 2x base salary and target bonus on qualifying termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-054846
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHD
- cik: 0000313927
- company_name: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525054846/0001193125-25-054846-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525054846/d799441d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard Dierker changed role as Chief Executive Officer at CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/.
  - Action: will commence his role as CEO
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: As previously announced, Richard Dierker, the Company’s current Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Operations, will commence his role as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer on April 2, 2025, succeeding Matthew T. Farrell upon Mr. Farrell’s retirement, and Mr. McChesney will succeed Mr. Dierker as CFO.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525054846/0001193125-25-054846-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lee McChesney was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 14, 2025, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Lee McChesney will be elected as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective on March 24, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525054846/0001193125-25-054846-index.htm
- Executive change
  Matthew T. Farrell departed as Chief Executive Officer at CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/.
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: succeeding Matthew T. Farrell upon Mr. Farrell’s retirement
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525054846/0001193125-25-054846-index.htm

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