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Issuer:     TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC (TDY)
CIK:        0001094285
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-28T20:27:53+00:00
Accession:  0001094285-26-000050
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Teledyne Vice Chairman Jason VanWees to retire Feb 1, 2027; Mary Grace DeForest named VP of IR and M&A
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- VanWees, Vice Chairman since 2021 and with Teledyne since before its 1999 spin-off, will retire effective February 1, 2027, at age 55.
- VanWees led the identification and acquisition of 75 businesses for cumulative consideration of $12.8 billion.
- Mary Grace DeForest, SVP and GM of Teledyne Microwave (880 employees, $320M annual revenue), becomes Corporate VP of Investor Relations and M&A effective November 1, 2026.
- Executive Chairman Robert Mehrabian cites compound annual shareholder return above 17% over nearly 27 years, sales up ~8x and market cap up over 100x; the roles overlap to ensure continuity.
- DeForest joined Teledyne in 2011 as a manufacturing engineer and has held roles at Teledyne Marine, Digital Imaging and Defense Electronics.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094285/000109428526000050/0001094285-26-000050-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094285/000109428526000050/tdy-20260928.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001094285-26-000050

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