---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-068784"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TKR"
cik: "0000098362"
company_name: "TIMKEN CO"
filed_at: "2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T02:49:40.548401+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Timken CEO Tarak Mehta departs; former CEO Richard Kyle returns as interim

## Summary
- Tarak Mehta and Timken mutually agreed to his departure as President and CEO, effective March 31, 2025; he also left the Board.
- Board appointed Richard Kyle as interim President and CEO; Kyle served as CEO from 2014-2024 and most recently as advisor.
- Mehta will receive a $9.25M cash settlement under a separation agreement with a general release; departure was not due to misconduct.
- Kyle to receive $1.2M annual base salary, $9M deferred share award, and $3.3M in performance-based RSUs, vesting by Feb 2026 or earlier.
- Kyle also eligible for standard executive benefits but not short/long-term incentives, severance, or deferred comp plans.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-068784
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TKR
- cik: 0000098362
- company_name: TIMKEN CO
- filed_at: 2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000119312525068784/0001193125-25-068784-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000119312525068784/d924654d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-068784.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tarak B. Mehta departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at TIMKEN CO.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Company and Tarak B. Mehta, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, had mutually agreed that Mr. Mehta would depart from the Company, including resigning as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000119312525068784/0001193125-25-068784-index.htm
- Executive change
  Richard G. Kyle was appointed as interim President and Chief Executive Officer at TIMKEN CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board had appointed Richard G. Kyle as the interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98362/000119312525068784/0001193125-25-068784-index.htm

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