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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-025567"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOVT"
cik: "0001076930"
company_name: "NOVANTA INC"
filed_at: "2022-07-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T17:13:09.619971+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novanta names Michele D. Welsh as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

## Summary
- Appointment effective July 11, 2022; Welsh will lead global legal, regulatory, corporate secretary, and EHS teams.
- Welsh brings over 20 years of legal experience at public companies, most recently as VP, Assistant GC at Carlisle Companies (CSL).
- Previously held senior legal roles at Aon plc (AON) from 2007 to 2018.
- Practiced law at Thompson Coburn LLP and Neal, Gerber and Eisenberg LLP; holds JD from Boston College Law School.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-025567
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOVT
- cik: 0001076930
- company_name: NOVANTA INC
- filed_at: 2022-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000156459022025567/0001564590-22-025567-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000156459022025567/novt-8k_20220711.htm

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