---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-039854"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HLIO"
cik: "0001024795"
company_name: "HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T14:57:03.500683+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Helios Technologies elects Laura Dempsey Brown as Board Chair, replacing retiring Philippe Lemaitre

## Summary
- Philippe Lemaitre retired as Board Chair after 18 years (since 2007), not seeking re-nomination at 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Laura Dempsey Brown elected as new Board Chair effective March 13, 2025; Board member since 2020.
- Brown previously chaired Audit and ESG Committees; retired SVP of Communications & IR at W.W. Grainger (GWW).
- Departure not due to any disagreement; part of planned Board succession process.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-039854
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HLIO
- cik: 0001024795
- company_name: HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- 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/1024795/000095017025039854/0000950170-25-039854-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024795/000095017025039854/hlio-20250313.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Laura Dempsey Brown was elected as Chair of the Board of Directors at HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Chair of the Board of Directors
  source text: the Board of Directors of Helios Technologies, Inc. elected Laura Dempsey Brown to serve as the new Chair of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024795/000095017025039854/0000950170-25-039854-index.htm
- Executive change
  Philippe Lemaitre retired as Chair of the Board of Directors at HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chair of the Board of Directors
  source text: Philippe Lemaitre, the Chair of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) notified the Company of his decision to retire and not seek re-nomination at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024795/000095017025039854/0000950170-25-039854-index.htm

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