---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001670541-22-000098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADNT"
cik: "0001670541"
company_name: "Adient plc"
filed_at: "2022-11-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T15:06:39.798860+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Adient grants RSU award to incoming CFO Jerome Dorlack as salary replacement

## Summary
- Jerome J. Dorlack will become EVP and CFO on December 1, 2022.
- Replacement RSU Award granted on Dec 1, 2022, with fair value equal to 10% of salary.
- Award replaces 10% of one year's salary forfeited via salary reduction to align pay with performance.
- RSU vests on one-year anniversary; accelerated vesting upon death/disability, continued vesting on involuntary termination without cause.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001670541-22-000098
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADNT
- cik: 0001670541
- company_name: Adient plc
- filed_at: 2022-11-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054122000098/0001670541-22-000098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054122000098/adnt-20221117.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001670541-22-000098.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jerome J. Dorlack was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Adient plc.
  - Action: will become
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Jerome J. Dorlack, Adient’s current Executive Vice President, Americas who will become Adient’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“ CFO ”) as of December 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1670541/000167054122000098/0001670541-22-000098-index.htm

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