---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-100196"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOVT"
cik: "0001076930"
company_name: "NOVANTA INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:47:44.104354+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novanta appoints John Burke as Chief Accounting Officer; Peter Chang departs after 13 years

## Summary
- John Burke, former VP Global Accounting, named CAO effective Aug 22, 2024, succeeding Peter Chang.
- Peter Chang served 13 years as CAO; will advise CFO until Feb 28, 2025; departure not due to any disagreement.
- Burke receives initial equity grant of $300,000 in RSUs vesting over 3 years, plus severance and change-in-control benefits.
- Burke is a CPA with prior roles at MilliporeSigma and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-100196
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOVT
- cik: 0001076930
- company_name: NOVANTA INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017024100196/0000950170-24-100196-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017024100196/novt-20240822.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-100196
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-100196.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Chang departed as Chief Accounting Officer at NOVANTA INC.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Mr. Burke succeeds Peter Chang, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of the Company, who departed from the role effective August 22, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017024100196/0000950170-24-100196-index.htm
- Executive change
  John Burke was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at NOVANTA INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On August 22, 2024, John Burke, formerly Vice President of Global Accounting for Novanta Inc. (the “Company”), was appointed Chief Accounting Officer of Novanta Inc. and assumed the role of principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017024100196/0000950170-24-100196-index.htm

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