---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-079450"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDC"
cik: "0000913142"
company_name: "BELDEN INC."
filed_at: "2022-03-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T21:52:05.033327+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Belden SVP HR Dean McKenna succeeded by Leah Tate; equity vesting accelerated

## Summary
- Dean McKenna departed as SVP HR effective March 18, 2022; Leah Tate succeeded him.
- McKenna remains until March 31, 2022 to assist transition; termination without cause under Executive Severance Plan.
- Compensation Committee approved accelerated vesting of three equity grants: RSUs from May 2019 and July 2020, and PSUs from May 2019.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-079450
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDC
- cik: 0000913142
- company_name: BELDEN INC.
- filed_at: 2022-03-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000119312522079450/0001193125-22-079450-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000119312522079450/d337875d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-079450.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dean McKenna departed as Senior Vice President, Human Resources at BELDEN INC..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Human Resources
  source text: Effective March 18, 2022, Dean McKenna, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Belden Inc. (the “Company”) and a named executive officer in the Company’s 2021 proxy statement, was succeeded by Leah Tate.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000119312522079450/0001193125-22-079450-index.htm
- Executive change
  Leah Tate was appointed as Senior Vice President, Human Resources at BELDEN INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Human Resources
  source text: Effective March 18, 2022, Dean McKenna, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Belden Inc. (the “Company”) and a named executive officer in the Company’s 2021 proxy statement, was succeeded by Leah Tate.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000119312522079450/0001193125-22-079450-index.htm

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