---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000010795-25-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDX"
cik: "0000010795"
company_name: "BECTON DICKINSON & CO"
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:26:53.785556+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BD appoints Pamela Spikner as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller effective Jan 20, 2025

## Summary
- Pamela Spikner named SVP, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, effective January 20, 2025.
- Spikner previously served as CAO of R1 RCM since July 2021; earlier roles at Hill-Rom and Exelon.
- She will report to EVP/CFO Chris DelOrefice; DelOrefice remains interim principal accounting officer until BD files Q1 FY2025 10-Q.
- Spikner is a CPA and CIA, holds a B.S. in Accounting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000010795-25-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDX
- cik: 0000010795
- company_name: BECTON DICKINSON & CO
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000001079525000005/0000010795-25-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000001079525000005/bdx-20250110.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000010795-25-000005.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pamela L. Spikner was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at BECTON DICKINSON & CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: On January 9, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Becton, Dickinson and Company (the “Company”) appointed Pamela L. Spikner as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, effective January 20, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000001079525000005/0000010795-25-000005-index.htm

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