secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     COHERENT CORP. (COHR)
CIK:        0000820318
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-24-241091
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 99.1, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524241091/0001193125-24-241091-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312524241091/d839303d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-241091

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