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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-026976"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROK"
cik: "0001024478"
company_name: "ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC"
filed_at: "2022-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T11:23:55.520228+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rockwell Automation elects Robert Soderbery to board of directors, effective Feb 2, 2022

## Summary
- Board size increased to 11; Soderbery fills vacancy with term expiring at 2023 annual meeting.
- Soderbery is EVP and GM, Flash Business Unit at Western Digital, managing $10B flash memory segment.
- He brings 30+ years tech experience from Western Digital, Cisco, and Symantec; appointed to Technology Committee.
- Standard non-employee director compensation includes shares valued at $98,334 under 2020 LTIP.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-026976
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROK
- cik: 0001024478
- company_name: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC
- filed_at: 2022-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312522026976/0001193125-22-026976-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312522026976/d303230d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-026976
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-026976.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-026976.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert W. Soderbery was elected as director at ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On February 2, 2022, the Board elected Robert W. Soderbery as a director of the Company effective February 2, 2022, to fill the vacancy created by the increase in the number of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312522026976/0001193125-22-026976-index.htm

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