---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000746598-22-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRC"
cik: "0000746598"
company_name: "BRADY CORP"
filed_at: "2022-02-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T06:22:14.827449+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brady Corp elects Joanne Collins Smee and Vineet Nargolwala to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Both directors elected effective February 22, 2022, filling vacancies on the Board.
- Collins Smee is Chief Commercial Officer at Xerox; Nargolwala is EVP Sensing Solutions at Sensata.
- Each receives $109,000 of unrestricted Class A Nonvoting Common Stock upon appointment.
- Collins Smee assigned to Technology Committee; Nargolwala to Finance Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000746598-22-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRC
- cik: 0000746598
- company_name: BRADY CORP
- filed_at: 2022-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659822000016/0000746598-22-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659822000016/brc-20220215.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000746598-22-000016
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000746598-22-000016.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000746598-22-000016.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Vineet Nargolwala was elected as Director at BRADY CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board of Directors of Brady Corporation (the “Company”) elected Joanne Collins Smee and Vineet Nargolwala to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors, effective February 22, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659822000016/0000746598-22-000016-index.htm
- Executive change
  Joanne Collins Smee was elected as Director at BRADY CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board of Directors of Brady Corporation (the “Company”) elected Joanne Collins Smee and Vineet Nargolwala to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors, effective February 22, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659822000016/0000746598-22-000016-index.htm

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