---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000355811-25-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNTX"
cik: "0000355811"
company_name: "GENTEX CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T19:08:12.645372+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gentex appoints Neil Boehm as Chief Operations Officer; retains CTO role

## Summary
- Neil Boehm appointed COO effective January 1, 2025; continues as CTO.
- Boehm has been with Gentex since 2001, previously VP of Engineering and CTO since 2018.
- No written employment agreement; remains an at-will employee.
- No family relationships with any director or executive officer.
- Promotion aligns operations with innovation and growth strategy per CEO Steve Downing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000355811-25-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNTX
- cik: 0000355811
- company_name: GENTEX CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-02T23:59:59+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/355811/000035581125000003/0000355811-25-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000003/gntx-20250101.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355811-25-000003
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355811-25-000003.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355811-25-000003.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Neil Boehm was appointed as Chief Operations Officer at GENTEX CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operations Officer
  source text: Neil Boehm, was appointed as the Company's Chief Operations Officer, effective as of January 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355811/000035581125000003/0000355811-25-000003-index.htm

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