---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-010414"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UCTT"
cik: "0001275014"
company_name: "Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T09:37:16.486482+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO James Scholhamer resigns for health reasons; Chairman Clarence Granger named interim CEO

## Summary
- James Scholhamer resigned as CEO and Board member effective March 4, 2025 due to a personal medical condition.
- Chairman Clarence Granger, age 76, appointed interim CEO; Board search for permanent CEO underway.
- Scholhamer receives $2,548,796 lump sum separation payment subject to release of claims.
- Granger gets $810,000 prorated base salary, 110% target bonus, and $900,000 RSU award vesting at end of interim service.
- Granger served as UCT's CEO from 2003 to 2015; has extensive knowledge of the company's business and operations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-010414
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UCTT
- cik: 0001275014
- company_name: Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275014/000162828025010414/0001628280-25-010414-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275014/000162828025010414/uctt-20250305.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-010414.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Clarence L. Granger was appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer at Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: and that Clarence L. Granger, the Chairman of the Board, will become the Company’s interim Chief Executive Officer on the effective date of Mr. Scholhamer’s resignation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275014/000162828025010414/0001628280-25-010414-index.htm
- Executive change
  James P. Scholhamer resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 5, 2025, Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that James P. Scholhamer has resigned, effective March 4, 2025, as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275014/000162828025010414/0001628280-25-010414-index.htm

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