---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-203554"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEOG"
cik: "0000711377"
company_name: "NEOGEN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-09-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:41:40.353481+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Neogen CFO & COO David Naemura resigns voluntarily; successor search underway

## Summary
- Naemura will remain CFO/COO until October filing of 10-Q, no later than Dec 31, 2025.
- Transition agreement: if employed through Dec 31, 2025, he receives 50% of annual target cash bonus.
- Jim Walter, VP Global Operations, assumes oversight of Global Procurement, reports to CEO.
- Bill Waelke, VP Investor Relations & Treasury, will handle finance questions during transition.
- Company has engaged a leading executive search firm; no CFO replacement named yet.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-203554
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEOG
- cik: 0000711377
- company_name: NEOGEN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-09-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711377/000119312525203554/0001193125-25-203554-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711377/000119312525203554/neog-20250912.htm

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