---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-055724"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABT"
cik: "0000001800"
company_name: "ABBOTT LABORATORIES"
filed_at: "2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T03:10:32.890262+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Abbott EVP Finance Robert Funck Jr. to retire July 1, 2024 after 36 years

## Summary
- Robert E. Funck Jr., Executive Vice President, Finance, plans to retire effective July 1, 2024.
- Funck has served at Abbott Laboratories for 36 years.
- No successor has been named; Philip Boudreau remains Senior VP, Finance and CFO.
- Departure is a planned retirement, not a termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-055724
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABT
- cik: 0000001800
- company_name: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
- filed_at: 2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465924055724/0001104659-24-055724-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465924055724/tm2413230d1_8k.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-055724.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-055724.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert E. Funck, Jr. departed as Executive Vice President, Finance at ABBOTT LABORATORIES.
  - Action: plans to retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Finance
  source text: Robert E. Funck, Jr., Executive Vice President, Finance, informed Abbott Laboratories that he plans to retire from the company after 36 years of service, effective July 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465924055724/0001104659-24-055724-index.htm

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