---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-132448"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EMR"
cik: "0000032604"
company_name: "EMERSON ELECTRIC CO"
filed_at: "2023-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T03:57:03.589692+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Emerson adds two new directors (Gonçalves, McKelvey), forms technology committee

## Summary
- Leticia Gonçalves and Jim McKelvey elected to Emerson board effective May 2, 2023; board expands to 13 members.
- Gonçalves is President, Global Foods at ADM; McKelvey co-founded Square/Block and Invisibly.
- Both will serve on new Technology and Environmental Sustainability Committee; Gonçalves also on Audit, McKelvey also on Compensation.
- Each receives prorated RSU award of $116,667 as part of annual non-management director retainer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-132448
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EMR
- cik: 0000032604
- company_name: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO
- filed_at: 2023-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/32604/000119312523132448/0001193125-23-132448-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/32604/000119312523132448/d494307d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-132448.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leticia Gonçalves was elected as Director at EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 2, 2023, the Board of Directors of Emerson Electric Co. (the “Company”) elected Leticia Gonçalves and Jim M. McKelvey as Directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/32604/000119312523132448/0001193125-23-132448-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jim M. McKelvey was elected as Director at EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 2, 2023, the Board of Directors of Emerson Electric Co. (the “Company”) elected Leticia Gonçalves and Jim M. McKelvey as Directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/32604/000119312523132448/0001193125-23-132448-index.htm

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