---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-076869"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRKR"
cik: "0001109354"
company_name: "BRUKER CORP"
filed_at: "2022-03-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T22:15:16.649150+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bruker appoints Philip Ma to board; director Marc Kastner to retire at 2023 meeting

## Summary
- Philip Ma appointed to board effective April 1, 2022, filling newly created Class II vacancy.
- Marc Kastner will retire and not stand for re-election at 2023 annual meeting; continues serving until then.
- Ma is CEO/founder of PrognomiQ, in which Bruker made $12M minority investment in February 2022.
- Ma's background includes multiomics, life science tools, and biopharma; will serve as non-employee director.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-076869
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRKR
- cik: 0001109354
- company_name: BRUKER CORP
- filed_at: 2022-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109354/000119312522076869/0001193125-22-076869-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109354/000119312522076869/d333656d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-076869
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-076869.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-076869.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Marc Kastner departed as Director at BRUKER CORP.
  - Action: retire and not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Dr. Marc Kastner informed the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Bruker Corporation (the “Company”) of his decision to retire and not to stand for re-election as a Class II director when his current term expires at the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109354/000119312522076869/0001193125-22-076869-index.htm
- Executive change
  Philip Ma was appointed as Director at BRUKER CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board approved an increase in the number of directors to expand the size of the Board by one director to a total of eleven directors, with such additional director assigned to Class II, and appointed Dr. Philip Ma to fill the newly created vacancy on the Board, effective as of April 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109354/000119312522076869/0001193125-22-076869-index.htm

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