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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · MSA Safety (MSA)

MSA Safety CFO Lee McChesney to resign March 21; Elyse Brody named interim CFO

Neutral Impact 4 of 5 leadership Written later

MSA Safety said Chief Financial Officer Lee McChesney will resign effective March 21, 2025, to pursue another business opportunity, and that the departure does not involve any disagreement or accounting issues. Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis and Strategy Elyse Brody will serve as interim CFO while the company searches for a permanent replacement, which matters to shareholders because the company is changing its finance leadership during the search.

Key points

  • Lee B. McChesney resigns as SVP and CFO effective March 21, 2025; the filing says the departure is not due to any disagreement with the company or its board on operations, policies, practices or accounting.
  • Elyse L. Brody, 37, becomes interim CFO effective March 21, 2025, while keeping her current role; she joined the company in 2011.
  • The company has started a comprehensive search for a permanent CFO; the filing does not give a timeline, and Brody's pay changes are not quantified.

The filing

CompanyMSA Safety (MSA)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECMar 13, 2025, 4:49 PM ET
Accession number0000066570-25-000009

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 12:58 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on March 13, 2025.

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