---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000078814-24-000059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PBI"
cik: "0000078814"
company_name: "PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-08-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:04:50.098508+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pitney Bowes CAO Catapano departs; interim CFO Witek named successor effective Sept 7

## Summary
- Joseph Catapano will leave as Chief Accounting Officer effective Sept 6, 2024, after informing the company on Aug 23.
- John Witek, Interim CFO, appointed Chief Accounting Officer effective Sept 7, 2024, and will continue as principal financial officer.
- Witek receives a one-time payment of $100,000, subject to clawback if he voluntarily resigns before end of Q1 2025.
- Witek, 64, formerly Head of Global Business Services and CFO of SendTech segment, joined Pitney Bowes in 2019.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000078814-24-000059
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PBI
- cik: 0000078814
- company_name: PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-08-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78814/000007881424000059/0000078814-24-000059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78814/000007881424000059/pbi-20240823.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000078814-24-000059.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000078814-24-000059.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph Catapano departed as Chief Accounting Officer at PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/.
  - Action: leaving
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Mr. Catapano informed the Company on August 23, 2024 that he will be leaving the Company effective September 6, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78814/000007881424000059/0000078814-24-000059-index.htm

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