---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-22-020352"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAB"
cik: "0000943452"
company_name: "WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2022-05-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T07:56:02.713333+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WAB announces director retirements and annual meeting voting results

## Summary
- Directors Lee B. Foster and Michael Howell retired from the Board on May 18, 2022.
- Shareholders elected William E. Kassling, Albert J. Neupaver, and Ann R. Klee to three-year terms expiring 2025.
- Advisory vote on 2021 executive compensation approved: 147.6M for, 8.7M against, 0.2M abstain.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for fiscal 2022 approved: 160.7M for, 3.1M against.
- All three management proposals at the 2022 Annual Meeting were approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-020352
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAB
- cik: 0000943452
- company_name: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2022-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943452/000114036122020352/0001140361-22-020352-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943452/000114036122020352/brhc10038011_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-020352.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-020352.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lee B. Foster retired as Director at WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 18, 2022, Mr. Lee B. Foster and Mr. Michael Howell, each a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (the “Company”), retired from the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943452/000114036122020352/0001140361-22-020352-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael Howell retired as Director at WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 18, 2022, Mr. Lee B. Foster and Mr. Michael Howell, each a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (the “Company”), retired from the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943452/000114036122020352/0001140361-22-020352-index.htm

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