secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC. (TMO)
CIK:        0000097745
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000097745-22-000008
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Thermo Fisher elects Ruby R. Chandy to board; director Thomas J. Lynch to retire at 2022 annual meeting
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- Board increased to 13; Ruby R. Chandy elected effective March 1, 2022, term through 2022 annual meeting; serve on Audit Committee.
- Thomas J. Lynch (Lead Director since 2020) to retire at 2022 annual meeting; board to reduce to 12 members.
- Chandy was President of Industrial Division at Pall Corp; prior roles at Dow Chemical and Rohm and Haas; also on DuPont and Flowserve boards.
- Non-management directors receive $125k annual cash retainer; committee chairs get additional $20k-$25k; equity per Compensation Committee.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97745/000009774522000008/0000097745-22-000008-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97745/000009774522000008/tmo-20220223.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000097745-22-000008

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