---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-076926"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CDXS"
cik: "0001200375"
company_name: "CODEXIS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T17:59:38.895605+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Codexis board member Byron Dorgan to retire at 2025 annual meeting, will consult for one year

## Summary
- Byron Dorgan, director since 2011 and former Chairman, will not stand for reelection at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- He will continue as a director until the meeting, then serve as a consultant for one year.
- Board size will reduce from ten to nine seats following his departure.
- Departure is not due to any disagreement with the company on operations, policies, or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-076926
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CDXS
- cik: 0001200375
- company_name: CODEXIS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1200375/000119312525076926/0001193125-25-076926-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1200375/000119312525076926/d949566d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-076926
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-076926.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-076926.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Byron L. Dorgan departed as director at CODEXIS, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: director
  source text: On April 4, 2025, Byron L. Dorgan provided notice to the board of directors (the “Board”) of Codexis, Inc. (the “Company”) of his intention to retire and not to stand for reelection to the Board at the expiration of his current term at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1200375/000119312525076926/0001193125-25-076926-index.htm

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