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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-158429"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCL"
cik: "0000094049"
company_name: "STEPAN CO"
filed_at: "2025-07-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:50:58.173132+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stepan appoints Ruben Velasquez as CFO effective July 15, 2025

## Summary
- Ruben Velasquez appointed VP and CFO, effective July 15, 2025, succeeding interim CFO Samuel Hinrichsen.
- Annual base salary of $475,000; target short-term incentive of 75% of base salary.
- Initial LTI grant includes $200,000 in RSUs, $100,000 in performance shares, and $100,000 in SARs.
- Velasquez previously served as VP Global Finance Transformation at 3M; also held senior finance roles at 3M and Ecopetrol.
- Hinrichsen returns to VP of Finance role after serving as interim CFO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-158429
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCL
- cik: 0000094049
- company_name: STEPAN CO
- filed_at: 2025-07-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000119312525158429/0001193125-25-158429-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000119312525158429/d27959d8k.htm

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