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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-155874"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WOLF"
cik: "0000895419"
company_name: "WOLFSPEED, INC."
filed_at: "2025-07-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:24:07.659539+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wolfspeed appoints Gregor van Issum as CFO, effective Sept 1, 2025; former ams-OSRAM & NXP executive

## Summary
- Van Issum joins as CFO and EVP; will relocate to Durham, NC and report to CEO Robert Feurle.
- He will succeed Kevin Speirits, who resumes role as SVP Finance after serving as interim CFO.
- Compensation: base salary $500k, target bonus 75%, sign-on bonus $450k, and $3M RSU grant vesting over 4 years.
- Van Issum has 20+ years at NXP and ams-OSRAM, including leading financial transformations and cost-saving programs.
- His appointment follows addition of COO David Emerson in May; company says refreshed leadership positions it for profitability.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-155874
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WOLF
- cik: 0000895419
- company_name: WOLFSPEED, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-07-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000119312525155874/0001193125-25-155874-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000119312525155874/d98517d8k.htm

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