---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-132552"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROK"
cik: "0001024478"
company_name: "ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T15:23:52.723961+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rockwell Automation CFO Nicholas Gangestad announces retirement; search underway

## Summary
- CFO Nicholas C. Gangestad plans to retire; will stay until successor is appointed.
- Gangestad will assist Board and executive team with transition.
- No specific retirement date or replacement name provided.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-132552
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROK
- cik: 0001024478
- company_name: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312524132552/0001193125-24-132552-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312524132552/d813481d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-132552.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-132552.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nicholas C. Gangestad departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC.
  - Action: plans to retire
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Rockwell Automation, Inc. (the “Company”) today announced that Nicholas C. Gangestad, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, notified the Company that he plans to retire.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312524132552/0001193125-24-132552-index.htm

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