---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-067691"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKR"
cik: "0001701605"
company_name: "Baker Hughes Co"
filed_at: "2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T01:56:08.355934+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Elsenhans not standing for re-election; Ilham Kadri elected to board

## Summary
- Lynn L. Elsenhans will not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting; she continues as director until that meeting and as committee chair until May 1, 2025.
- Ilham Kadri (CEO of Syensqo S.A., former CEO of Solvay S.A.) elected to board effective May 1, 2025, expanding board from 10 to 11 members.
- Kadri is independent under Nasdaq rules, qualifies as an audit committee financial expert, and will serve on Audit and Human Capital and Compensation Committees.
- Elsenhans' departure is not due to any disagreement with the company; she served on the board since 2019.
- Kadri also serves on boards of A.O. Smith Corporation and L'Oréal S.A.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-067691
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKR
- cik: 0001701605
- company_name: Baker Hughes Co
- filed_at: 2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525067691/0001193125-25-067691-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525067691/d907259d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-067691.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lynn L. Elsenhans departed as Director at Baker Hughes Co.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 28, 2025, Lynn L. Elsenhans informed Baker Hughes Company (the “Company”) that she will not stand for re-election at the Company’s upcoming 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525067691/0001193125-25-067691-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ilham Kadri was elected as Director at Baker Hughes Co.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 28, 2025, the Board elected Ilham Kadri to serve as a director of the Company with a term beginning on May 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525067691/0001193125-25-067691-index.htm

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