---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000008818-26-000157"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVY"
cik: "0000008818"
company_name: "Avery Dennison Corp"
filed_at: "2026-10-13T10:46:00+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-13T10:50:05.316466+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avery Dennison names Helen Sheirbon President, Solutions Group, effective Nov 3; base salary $625K

## Summary
- Board elected Sheirbon on Oct 9, 2026 as president, Solutions Group and an executive officer, effective Nov 3, 2026.
- Sheirbon, 51, is currently SVP and COO of Global HP Solutions at HP Inc., leaving that company by end of October 2026.
- Compensation: $625,000 base salary, 60% target annual incentive, 200% target long-term incentive, $65,000 annual executive allowance.
- One-time awards: $2M RSUs vesting 50% on first and second anniversaries, $1.5M performance units in Q1 2027, $250K signing bonus and $800K in February 2027 to offset forfeited HP incentives.
- Cash bonus and make-whole payment must be repaid if Sheirbon voluntarily leaves within 24 months; $15,000/yr financial counseling reimbursed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000008818-26-000157
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVY
- cik: 0000008818
- company_name: Avery Dennison Corp
- filed_at: 2026-10-13T10:46:00+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881826000157/0000008818-26-000157-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881826000157/avy-20261009.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008818-26-000157
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000008818-26-000157.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Helen J. Sheirbon was elected as President, Solutions Group at Avery Dennison Corp.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: President, Solutions Group
  source text: On October 9, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Avery Dennison Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), elected Helen J. Sheirbon as President, Solutions Group, and an “executive officer” of the Company under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, effective November 3, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000000881826000157/0000008818-26-000157-index.htm

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