---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-033465"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LECO"
cik: "0000059527"
company_name: "LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:36:21.558691+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lincoln Electric elects N. Joy Falotico to board; EVP Kuhrt to retire in August

## Summary
- Kellye I. Walker resigns from board, will not stand for re-election at 2025 annual meeting; no disagreement with management.
- Board expands to 12 members; elects N. Joy Falotico, former President of Lincoln Motor Company (Ford), to fill vacancy.
- Falotico appointed to Audit and Nominating/Governance committees; initial RSU award of 578 units.
- EVP & Chief Transformation Officer Michele R. Kuhrt intends to retire effective August 31, 2025; will assist with transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-033465
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LECO
- cik: 0000059527
- company_name: LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312525033465/0001193125-25-033465-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312525033465/d919873d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-033465.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michele R. Kuhrt departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer at LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer
  source text: Additionally, on February 19, 2025, Michele R. Kuhrt, Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer of the Company, informed the Company of her intention to retire, effective August 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312525033465/0001193125-25-033465-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kellye I. Walker resigned as Director at LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 19, 2025, Kellye I. Walker notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) of her intention to resign from the Board and not to stand for re-election upon the expiration of her current term, which expires at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312525033465/0001193125-25-033465-index.htm
- Executive change
  N. Joy Falotico was elected as Director at LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 19, 2025, the Board of the Company increased its size from eleven to twelve members and elected N. Joy Falotico to fill the resulting vacancy.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312525033465/0001193125-25-033465-index.htm

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