Danaher appoints Julie Sawyer Montgomery as CEO effective Oct 1, 2026; Rainer Blair to retire

DANAHER CORP /DE/

Julie Sawyer Montgomery named President and CEO effective Oct 1, 2026; also appointed to Board.
Rainer Blair retires as CEO and Board member; serves as Senior Advisor through Dec 2026, consultant to Mar 2027.
New CEO compensation: $1.5M base, 200% target cash incentive, $13.2M LTI target, plus $20M special stock option award.
Founders Steven and Mitchell Rales each receive 1M options and 500k RSUs vesting 50% at 4 and 5 years.
CFO Gugino gets $12.5M special option; other execs get RSUs. No change to Q3/FY2026 guidance.

item 5.02 item 7.01 item 8.01 item 9.01

Executive movements

Machine-extracted from this filing. Every card cites the SEC source. See all recent executive movements.

Appointed

Julie Sawyer Montgomery

Director

DHR · DANAHER CORP /DE/

Effective: 2026-10-01
Filed: August 3, 2026, 4:27 PM ET

The Board also appointed Ms. Sawyer Montgomery to the Board and to each of the Executive, Finance and Science & Technology Committees of the Board, in each case effective as of the Effective Date.

Appointed

Julie Sawyer Montgomery

President and Chief Executive Officer

DHR · DANAHER CORP /DE/

Effective: 2026-10-01
Filed: August 3, 2026, 4:27 PM ET

the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has appointed Julie Sawyer Montgomery as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company (the “CEO”).

Key facts

Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.

Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Julie Sawyer Montgomery was appointed as Director at DANAHER CORP /DE/.

Action: appointed
Role: Director

Exact text from the filing

The Board also appointed Ms. Sawyer Montgomery to the Board and to each of the Executive, Finance and Science & Technology Committees of the Board, in each case effective as of the Effective Date.

View on SEC.gov

Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Julie Sawyer Montgomery was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at DANAHER CORP /DE/.

Action: appointed
Role: President and Chief Executive Officer

Exact text from the filing

the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has appointed Julie Sawyer Montgomery as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company (the “CEO”).

View on SEC.gov

DANAHER CORP /DE/ filing history →

Source: SEC EDGAR

accession 0001193125-26-330652

view filing index on sec.gov

view primary document

Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · Plain text

This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice. See methodology for how this pipeline works.