---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-075587"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "A"
cik: "0001090872"
company_name: "AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:08:47.254097+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Agilent appoints AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot and Judy Brown to board; Kunz retires.

## Summary
- Pascal Soriot (AstraZeneca CEO) and Judy Gawlik Brown (Downtown Advisory) appointed effective May 21, 2025.
- Heidi Kunz retired from the board after more than 20 years, effective same date.
- Board size increased from 10 to 12 members to accommodate the new appointments.
- Bylaw amended to eliminate 80% supermajority vote requirement for certain actions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-075587
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: A
- cik: 0001090872
- company_name: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017025075587/0000950170-25-075587-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017025075587/a-20250520.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-075587.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pascal Soriot was appointed as Director at AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. Soriot was appointed to serve in the class of directors that will stand for re-election at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017025075587/0000950170-25-075587-index.htm
- Executive change
  Judy Gawlik Brown was appointed as Director at AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Ms. Brown was appointed to serve in the class of directors that will stand for re-election at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017025075587/0000950170-25-075587-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.: Amended and restated bylaws to eliminate the 80% supermajority vote requirement for certain actions (effective 2025-05-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-20
  source text: The Amended Bylaws implement the following: Article IX was amended to, among other things, eliminate the requirement for an affirmative vote of the combined voting power of at least eighty percent (80%) of the voting power of all shares of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors then outstanding to approve certain actions.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017025075587/0000950170-25-075587-index.htm

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