---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-291024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BIO"
cik: "0000012208"
company_name: "BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC."
filed_at: "2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T23:18:53.931537+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bio-Rad's EVP President of Life Science Group Annette Tumolo to retire Jan 4, 2022

## Summary
- Annette Tumolo, EVP President of Life Science Group and named executive officer, to retire effective Jan 4, 2022.
- Tumolo served Bio-Rad for nearly 33 years before announcing retirement.
- Company has initiated a search for a successor to Tumolo.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-291024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BIO
- cik: 0000012208
- company_name: BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12208/000119312521291024/0001193125-21-291024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12208/000119312521291024/d238894d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-291024
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-291024.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Annette Tumolo departed as Executive Vice President, President, Life Science Group at BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, President, Life Science Group
  source text: On September 28, 2021, Annette Tumolo, the Executive Vice President, President, Life Science Group, of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (the “Company”) and a named executive officer of the Company, informed the Company of her intention to retire from her position at the Company, effective January 4, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12208/000119312521291024/0001193125-21-291024-index.htm

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