Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(b) On September 9, 2025, Donald P. Newman, Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of ATI Inc. (the “Company”) advised the Company that he will retire from the Company on March 1, 2026. The Company is conducting a process to identify his successor.
To smoothly transition his duties and knowledge once his successor is identified, Mr. Newman is expected to provide consulting services to the Company for a period of ten months following his retirement (through January 2027), during which time and in consideration for his services, the Company will pay Mr. Newman $10,000 per month. Additionally, the Company will reimburse Mr. Newman a portion of the cost of COBRA coverage in an amount equal to the difference between the premium payable with respect to coverage for Mr. Newman and his dependent and the amount that he would have paid for coverage under the Company’s health benefits programs had be remained employed by the Company until the earlier of 18 months following the date of his retirement or until he otherwise becomes ineligible for COBRA coverage. Any equity awards outstanding at the time of his retirement will vest according to their existing terms and conditions (including retirement vesting to the extent applicable for such awards and for which the Company has agreed to waive required notice periods), and Mr. Newman will be subject to customary affirmative and negative covenants.
The Company issued a press release on September 10, 2025 to announce Mr. Newman’s planned retirement, which is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
(d) On September 10, 2025, the Company announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) expanded the size of the Board from ten to twelve directors and appointed Elizabeth Lund to the Board as an independent Class III Director, with a term expiring at the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and Jean Lydon-Rodgers to the Board as an independent Class II Director, with a term expiring at the Company’s 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, in each case effective November 1, 2025. Ms. Lund and Ms. Lydon-Rodgers each will serve on the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board.
Ms. Lund retired in March 2025 following a 34-year career with Boeing Co., having most recently served as Senior Vice President of Quality for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and as Chair of Boeing’s Enterprise Quality Operations Council. From 2021 to 2024, she was Senior Vice President, Airplane Programs, with responsibility for production and delivery across all commercial aircraft, and from 2019 to 2021 served as Vice President and General Manager, Supply Chain. overseeing 3,000 suppliers in 41 countries. Earlier in her career, Ms. Lund held numerous executive leadership positions in engineering, program management, manufacturing and supplier management across Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes business. Over her 34-year career, she drove major turnarounds, including tripling aircraft delivery performance during a critical production ramp and implementing enterprise-wide safety and quality reforms with the Federal Aviation Administration. Ms. Lund received the Women in Aerospace Outstanding Achievement Award in 2015. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tulsa and an MS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Ms. Lydon-Rodgers retired in 2021 following a 35-year career with GE, having most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Aviation Services, from 2016 until 2021, overseeing the company’s global aftermarket services division delivering lifecycle support