---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-002238"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HBIO"
cik: "0001123494"
company_name: "HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T13:02:35.195590+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Harvard Bioscience director Bertrand Loy not standing for re-election at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Bertrand Loy informed company April 10, 2025, he will not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Loy has served on the Board since 2014; currently Lead Independent Director and member of Audit and Nominating & Governance committees.
- Decision not due to any disagreement with company's operations, policies, or practices; Loy continues as director until the meeting.
- Board expressed appreciation for Loy's service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-002238
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HBIO
- cik: 0001123494
- company_name: HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123494/000117184325002238/0001171843-25-002238-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123494/000117184325002238/f8k_041625.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-002238
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-002238.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-002238.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bertrand Loy departed as Lead Independent Director at HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Lead Independent Director
  source text: On April 10, 2025, Bertrand Loy informed the Company that he will not stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123494/000117184325002238/0001171843-25-002238-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.