---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-241091"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COHR"
cik: "0000820318"
company_name: "COHERENT CORP."
filed_at: "2024-10-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T12:05:37.784471+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coherent appoints Rob Beard as Chief Legal & Global Affairs Officer; Ron Basso retiring

## Summary
- Rob Beard named Chief Legal & Global Affairs Officer and Corporate Secretary, effective Oct 21, 2024.
- Beard joins from Mastercard, where he was Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer; previously at Micron.
- Ron Basso's service as executive officer ended Oct 21; he remains in non-executive role until retirement Dec 31, 2024.
- Marie Batz Martin promoted to Chief Compliance Officer, reporting to Beard.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-241091
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COHR
- cik: 0000820318
- company_name: COHERENT CORP.
- filed_at: 2024-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 99.1, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524241091/0001193125-24-241091-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524241091/d839303d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-241091
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-241091.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-241091.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ronald Basso departed as Chief Legal Officer at COHERENT CORP..
  - Action: ended
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer
  source text: announced that Ronald Basso’s service as an executive officer of the Company in the role of Chief Legal Officer ended simultaneously with the appointment of Rob Beard as the Company’s Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer, all effective on October 21, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524241091/0001193125-24-241091-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rob Beard was appointed as Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer at COHERENT CORP..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer
  source text: announced that Ronald Basso’s service as an executive officer of the Company in the role of Chief Legal Officer ended simultaneously with the appointment of Rob Beard as the Company’s Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer, all effective on October 21, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524241091/0001193125-24-241091-index.htm

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