---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-064715"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WOLF"
cik: "0000895419"
company_name: "WOLFSPEED, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T04:31:19.398469+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wolfspeed appoints Robert Feurle as CEO effective May 1, 2025; Thomas Werner returns to Chairman

## Summary
- Feurle joins from ams-OSRAM, where he led Opto Semiconductors with 10,000+ employees; prior roles at Infineon, Micron.
- Base salary $750K; annual target bonus 100% of salary starting FY2027; $1M sign-on bonus in two installments.
- Equity inducement awards: $2.5M RSUs and $2.5M option on start date; $2M RSUs and $3M PSUs on Aug 1, 2025.
- Glenda Dorchak appointed Governance Chair; Marvin Riley appointed Compensation Chair, effective April 1, 2025.
- Press release highlights focus on operational excellence, accelerating positive free cash flow and balance sheet improvement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-064715
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WOLF
- cik: 0000895419
- company_name: WOLFSPEED, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000119312525064715/0001193125-25-064715-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000119312525064715/d944887d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert Feurle was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at WOLFSPEED, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 27, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Wolfspeed, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Robert Feurle to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board, effective May 1, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000119312525064715/0001193125-25-064715-index.htm
- Executive change
  Thomas Werner changed role as Chairman of the Board at WOLFSPEED, INC..
  - Action: continued as
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: After a transition period, Mr. Werner will continue to serve as a non-employee director and Chairman of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000119312525064715/0001193125-25-064715-index.htm

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