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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001417398-24-000245"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001417398"
company_name: "Hillenbrand, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T12:19:10.712517+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hillenbrand elects former AutoNation CFO Joseph Lower to board as independent director, effective Dec 1

## Summary
- Joseph Lower, ex-EVP and CFO of AutoNation, joins Hillenbrand board as independent director, effective Dec 1, 2024.
- Board expands from 10 to 11 directors; Lower appointed Vice Chairperson of Audit Committee and member of NCG and M&A Committees.
- Director Inderpreet Sawhney named Vice Chairperson of Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee, also effective Dec 1.
- Lower brings over 30 years of finance, strategy, and M&A experience from AutoNation, Office Depot, and B/E Aerospace.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001417398-24-000245
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001417398
- company_name: Hillenbrand, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000141739824000245/0001417398-24-000245-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000141739824000245/hi-20241021.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph T. Lower was elected as Director at Hillenbrand, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: elected Joseph T. Lower to the Company’s Board of Directors as an independent director, effective December 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417398/000141739824000245/0001417398-24-000245-index.htm

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