---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001309402-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPRE"
cik: "0001309402"
company_name: "Green Plains Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T22:44:47.148958+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Green Plains CEO Todd Becker departs; executive committee named, cost savings targets reaffirmed

## Summary
- Todd Becker steps down as President, CEO, and board member effective March 1, 2025; severance of $2.04M plus accelerated vesting.
- Executive committee of four senior officers to lead until successor found; Mapes designated interim principal executive officer.
- Board realized $30M in annualized cost reductions and targets at least $20M more in additional savings.
- Patrich Simpkins appointed CEO of Fluid Quip Technologies, a majority-owned subsidiary.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001309402-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPRE
- cik: 0001309402
- company_name: Green Plains Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- 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/1309402/000130940225000018/0001309402-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000018/gpre-20250228.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000018
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000018.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Todd Becker departed as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Green Plains Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors
  source text: On February 28, 2025, the Board of Directors of Green Plains Inc. (the “Company”) announced by press release the departure of Todd Becker as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company, effective March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000018/0001309402-25-000018-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michelle Mapes was appointed as interim principal executive officer at Green Plains Inc..
  - Action: designated
  - Role: interim principal executive officer
  source text: The Board designated Ms. Mapes as interim principal executive officer, effective as of March 1, 2025, for purposes of the rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000018/0001309402-25-000018-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.