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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-26-021412"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MSEX"
cik: "0000066004"
company_name: "MIDDLESEX WATER CO"
filed_at: "2026-03-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T08:55:51.691485+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Middlesex Water appoints Tatyana Kaplan as VP & Chief Accounting Officer; Robert Capko departs as PAO

## Summary
- Tatyana Kaplan appointed VP & Chief Accounting Officer effective March 26, 2026, previously Director of Accounting at Veolia.
- Robert J. Capko departs as Principal Accounting Officer but remains as Corporate Controller.
- Kaplan brings experience in regulated utility accounting, rate case strategy, and was CPA at PwC and Prudential.
- Change in Control Agreement with Kaplan provides 2x severance if terminated within 2 years of change in control.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-021412
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MSEX
- cik: 0000066004
- company_name: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
- filed_at: 2026-03-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66004/000162828026021412/0001628280-26-021412-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66004/000162828026021412/msex-20260326.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-021412.txt

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