---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-322278"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CECO"
cik: "0000003197"
company_name: "CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP"
filed_at: "2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T11:46:54.946039+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CECO Environmental appoints Richard F. Wallman, former Honeywell CFO, to board

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9 directors; Wallman's term ends at 2022 annual meeting.
- Wallman served as Honeywell CFO and held senior roles at AlliedSignal, IBM, and Chrysler over 30-year career.
- Wallman currently serves as director at Roper Technologies and Charles River Laboratories.
- Board determined Wallman qualifies as independent under Nasdaq rules.
- CEO Todd Gleason and Chairman Jason DeZwirek praised Wallman's global business and manufacturing expertise.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-322278
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CECO
- cik: 0000003197
- company_name: CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP
- filed_at: 2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3197/000119312521322278/0001193125-21-322278-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3197/000119312521322278/d616955d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-322278
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-322278.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-322278.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard F. Wallman was appointed as Director at CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On November 4, 2021, CECO Environmental Corp. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) from eight to nine directors and appointed Richard F. Wallman to serve as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3197/000119312521322278/0001193125-21-322278-index.htm

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