---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-330652"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DHR"
cik: "0000313616"
company_name: "DANAHER CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2026-08-03T20:27:19+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-08-03T20:28:07.263520+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

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

## Summary
- 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.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-330652
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DHR
- cik: 0000313616
- company_name: DANAHER CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2026-08-03T20:27:19+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000119312526330652/0001193125-26-330652-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000119312526330652/d161342d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-330652.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julie Sawyer Montgomery was appointed as Director at DANAHER CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000119312526330652/0001193125-26-330652-index.htm
- Executive change
  Julie Sawyer Montgomery was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at DANAHER CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: 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”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000119312526330652/0001193125-26-330652-index.htm

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