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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-120323"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001417398"
company_name: "Hillenbrand, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T04:45:06.509958+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hillenbrand CFO Robert VanHimbergen to depart June 27; Megan Walke named interim CFO

## Summary
- Robert VanHimbergen, SVP & CFO, will leave on June 27, 2025 to pursue another position outside the company.
- Departure is not related to any disagreement on financials, operations, policies, or practices.
- Megan Walke, VP, Corporate Controller & CAO (14 years at Hillenbrand), will serve as Interim CFO.
- Company has engaged an executive search firm and begun a comprehensive search for a permanent CFO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-120323
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001417398
- company_name: Hillenbrand, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000119312525120323/0001193125-25-120323-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000119312525120323/d41075d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-120323
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-120323.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-120323.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Megan Walke was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Hillenbrand, Inc..
  - Action: named Interim CFO
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Upon Mr. VanHimbergen’s departure, Megan Walke, the Company’s Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, is expected to be named Interim CFO.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000119312525120323/0001193125-25-120323-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert M. VanHimbergen departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Hillenbrand, Inc..
  - Action: will depart
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 12, 2025, Robert M. VanHimbergen, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hillenbrand, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision to take another position outside of the Company, effective June 27, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000119312525120323/0001193125-25-120323-index.htm

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