---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001590976-25-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MBUU"
cik: "0001590976"
company_name: "MALIBU BOATS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T22:33:51.252987+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Malibu Boats appoints Melanie Cook to board; director Stokely to retire

## Summary
- Melanie Cook, former COO of GE Appliances, appointed independent director effective June 24, 2025.
- Cook will serve on Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees.
- John Stokely notified board he will not stand for re-election at 2025 annual meeting; term ends then.
- Stokely's departure is not due to any disagreement with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001590976-25-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MBUU
- cik: 0001590976
- company_name: MALIBU BOATS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590976/000159097625000054/0001590976-25-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590976/000159097625000054/mbuu-20250624.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001590976-25-000054
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001590976-25-000054.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Melanie K. Cook was appointed as director at MALIBU BOATS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 24, 2025, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Malibu Boats, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Melanie K. Cook to the Board effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590976/000159097625000054/0001590976-25-000054-index.htm
- Executive change
  John E. Stokely departed as director at MALIBU BOATS, INC..
  - Action: notified the Board that he does not intend to stand for re-election
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 20, 2025, John E. Stokely notified the Board that he does not intend to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590976/000159097625000054/0001590976-25-000054-index.htm

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