secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM)
CIK:        0000004281
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-25-101524
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Howmet Aerospace CFO Ken Giacobbe to retire; Patrick Winterlich named successor effective Dec 1, 2025
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- Ken Giacobbe retiring Dec 31, 2025 after 21 years at Howmet; will serve as special advisor Dec 1-31.
- Patrick Winterlich, formerly Hexcel EVP/CFO, joins as EVP/CFO effective Dec 1, 2025, reporting to John Plant.
- Winterlich base salary $700,000; target annual incentive 100% of base; sign-on cash bonus $800,000.
- Annual equity target $2,000,000 (40% time-vested RSUs, 60% performance-based RSUs).
- If involuntarily terminated without cause within 5 years, unvested equity awards continue vesting on original schedule.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4281/000110465925101524/0001104659-25-101524-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4281/000110465925101524/tm2529267d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-101524

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