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accession: "0001193125-25-237880"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCL"
cik: "0000094049"
company_name: "STEPAN CO"
filed_at: "2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:02:50.982307+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stepan VP and Interim CFO Samuel Hinrichsen resigns effective Oct 31, 2025

## Summary
- Samuel S. Hinrichsen notified Stepan on Oct 10, 2025 of resignation effective Oct 31, 2025.
- He served as VP and Interim CFO from Oct 30, 2024 to July 15, 2025, then Global VP, Finance and IR.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with Stepan's operations, policies, or practices.
- No successor announced for the departing officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-237880
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCL
- cik: 0000094049
- company_name: STEPAN CO
- filed_at: 2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000119312525237880/0001193125-25-237880-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000119312525237880/d928717d8k.htm

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