---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-158419"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTLS"
cik: "0000892553"
company_name: "CHART INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-06-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T10:04:48.502646+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chart Industries appoints Stephanie Everett as CAO, other senior finance promotions

## Summary
- Stephanie Everett named Chief Accounting Officer effective June 1, 2023; base salary $335,000, STI and LTI targets 40% each.
- Robin Catalano, prior CAO, transitions to VP of Operational Excellence.
- Mark Durham promoted to Senior VP, Finance; Matthew Benkert named VP of Finance and Treasurer effective June 26, 2023.
- Joseph Belling, Chief Commercial Officer, receives severance agreement: 100% base salary plus COBRA if terminated without cause; base salary raised to $450,000.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-158419
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTLS
- cik: 0000892553
- company_name: CHART INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-06-01T23:59:59+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/892553/000119312523158419/0001193125-23-158419-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523158419/d467494d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-158419
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-158419.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Durham was appointed as Senior Vice President, Finance at CHART INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Finance
  source text: In connection with these internal promotions, the Company also promoted Mark Durham, most recently Global Finance Director at Howden, to Senior Vice President, Finance.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523158419/0001193125-23-158419-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robin Catalano changed role as Vice President of Operational Excellence at CHART INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Vice President of Operational Excellence
  source text: Robin Catalano, the Company’s prior Chief Accounting Officer, will assume the role of the Company’s Vice President of Operational Excellence, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523158419/0001193125-23-158419-index.htm
- Executive change
  Stephanie Everett was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at CHART INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On May 25, 2023, the Board of Directors of Chart Industries, Inc. (the “Company”), as part of the Company’s regular succession planning process, made certain internal promotions, including appointing Stephanie Everett, age 48, as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, effective June 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523158419/0001193125-23-158419-index.htm
- Executive change
  Matthew Benkert was appointed as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at CHART INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President of Finance and Treasurer
  source text: Also on May 25, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Matthew Benkert, most recently the Vice President – Corporate Finance and Treasurer at Interface, Inc., as the Company’s Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, effective June 26, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523158419/0001193125-23-158419-index.htm

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