---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-032026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WWD"
cik: "0000108312"
company_name: "Woodward, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T16:33:48.082151+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EVP, General Counsel & Secretary Fawzy departs Woodward effective March 14, 2024

## Summary
- A. Christopher Fawzy, EVP General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Secretary, leaves Woodward effective March 14, 2024.
- No permanent replacement named; interim arrangement not disclosed.
- Separation qualifies as a Qualifying Termination under previously filed Amended Executive Severance Agreement.
- Departure determined on March 12, 2024, just two days before effective date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-032026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WWD
- cik: 0000108312
- company_name: Woodward, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108312/000095017024032026/0000950170-24-032026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108312/000095017024032026/wwd-20240312.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-032026.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  A. Christopher Fawzy departed as EVP, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary at Woodward, Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: EVP, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary
  source text: On March 12, 2024, it was determined that A. Christopher Fawzy, EVP, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary would depart the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108312/000095017024032026/0000950170-24-032026-index.htm

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