---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-21-016832"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T01:02:58.632713+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab appoints Jennifer Bradway as Corporate Controller effective Jan 1, 2022

## Summary
- Jennifer Bradway appointed SVP, Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer, effective January 1, 2022.
- She succeeds Scott Kirkland, who becomes CFO on the same date as previously announced.
- Bradway has been with Ecolab since 2012, most recently as SVP Finance, Global Institutional.
- No related-party transactions between Bradway or her family and Ecolab require disclosure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-21-016832
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837021016832/0001558370-21-016832-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837021016832/ecl-20211209x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jennifer Bradway was appointed as senior vice president, Corporate Controller at ECOLAB INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: senior vice president, Corporate Controller
  source text: Jennifer Bradway has been appointed to the position of senior vice president, Corporate Controller, and will serve as Ecolab's principal accounting officer, effective January 1, 2022, succeeding Scott Kirkland.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837021016832/0001558370-21-016832-index.htm
- Executive change
  Scott Kirkland changed role as Chief Financial Officer at ECOLAB INC..
  - Action: assuming
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: As previously announced, Mr. Kirkland will be assuming the position of Chief Financial Officer on the same date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837021016832/0001558370-21-016832-index.htm

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