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Issuer:     HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (HLIO)
CIK:        0001024795
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-25-039854
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024795/000095017025039854/0000950170-25-039854-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024795/000095017025039854/hlio-20250313.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-039854

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