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Issuer:     ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES INC (AEIS)
CIK:        0000927003
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001558370-23-018255
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Advanced Energy appoints new CAO, amends incentive plan and severance agreements
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- Appointed Bernard Colpitts as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer effective Nov 8, 2023; he receives $100K cash sign-on and $450K RSU grant.
- Amended 2023 Omnibus Incentive Plan to add partial vesting acceleration upon participant death.
- Amended Executive Severance Agreements to include Singapore law provisions; CEO gets 2x salary+bonus on change-in-control termination, other NEOs 1.5x.
- Paul Oldham remains CFO but transfers principal accounting officer role to Colpitts.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927003/000155837023018255/0001558370-23-018255-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927003/000155837023018255/aeis-20231102x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-23-018255

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