---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000046619-25-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HEI"
cik: "0000046619"
company_name: "HEICO CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T09:42:56.852103+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HEICO appoints Eric and Victor Mendelson as Co-CEOs; Laurans Mendelson becomes Executive Chairman

## Summary
- Laurans A. Mendelson transitions to Executive Chairman from CEO effective May 1, 2025.
- Eric A. Mendelson and Victor H. Mendelson, current Co-Presidents, become Co-CEOs effective same date.
- Both Eric and Victor continue as CEOs of Flight Support Group and Electronic Technologies Group respectively.
- Succession part of long-standing internal plan; no change in executive compensation arrangements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000046619-25-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HEI
- cik: 0000046619
- company_name: HEICO CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46619/000004661925000030/0000046619-25-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46619/000004661925000030/hei-20250418.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000046619-25-000030
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000046619-25-000030.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000046619-25-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Victor H. Mendelson was appointed as Co-Chief Executive Officer at HEICO CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Co-Chief Executive Officer
  source text: In connection with this transition, the Company appointed Eric A. Mendelson and Victor H. Mendelson to serve as Co-Chief Executive Officers (co-principal executive officers), also effective May 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46619/000004661925000030/0000046619-25-000030-index.htm
- Executive change
  Eric A. Mendelson was appointed as Co-Chief Executive Officer at HEICO CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Co-Chief Executive Officer
  source text: In connection with this transition, the Company appointed Eric A. Mendelson and Victor H. Mendelson to serve as Co-Chief Executive Officers (co-principal executive officers), also effective May 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46619/000004661925000030/0000046619-25-000030-index.htm
- Executive change
  Laurans A. Mendelson changed role as Executive Chairman at HEICO CORP.
  - Action: assume
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Effective May 1, 2025, Laurans A. Mendelson, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer), will assume the role of Executive Chairman of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46619/000004661925000030/0000046619-25-000030-index.htm

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