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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-095309"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOVT"
cik: "0001076930"
company_name: "NOVANTA INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:51:58.670467+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novanta General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Michele D. Welsh to depart July 18, 2025

## Summary
- Michele D. Welsh will no longer serve as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary effective July 18, 2025, or earlier if mutually agreed.
- No successor has been announced for the role of General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
- Ms. Welsh's severance entitlement under her employment agreement remains unchanged; no other departure terms disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-095309
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOVT
- cik: 0001076930
- company_name: NOVANTA INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017025095309/0000950170-25-095309-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017025095309/novt-20250708.htm

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