---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-002887"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SENEB"
cik: "0000088948"
company_name: "Seneca Foods Corp"
filed_at: "2023-02-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T21:14:53.582872+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Seneca Foods appoints Michael Wolcott as CFO effective April 1, 2023, succeeding retiring Tim Benjamin

## Summary
- Michael Wolcott appointed SVP Finance & CFO effective April 1, 2023, succeeding retiring CFO Tim Benjamin.
- Benjamin will retire as CFO on March 31, 2023 and remain for transition assistance until June 30, 2023.
- Wolcott previously served as VP of Finance; rejoined in July 2022 after MBA from Stanford.
- Wolcott will oversee finance, accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit, and investor relations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-002887
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SENEB
- cik: 0000088948
- company_name: Seneca Foods Corp
- filed_at: 2023-02-09T23:59:59+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/88948/000143774923002887/0001437749-23-002887-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88948/000143774923002887/senea20230125b_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-002887.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Wolcott was appointed as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Seneca Foods Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Seneca Foods Corporation today announced that it will appoint the current Vice President of Finance, Michael Wolcott, to Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") effective April 1, 2023 furnished as Exhibit 10.1, attached hereto.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88948/000143774923002887/0001437749-23-002887-index.htm

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