secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC (BAX)
CIK:        0000010456
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-25-003333
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.45
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Baxter appoints Anita Zielinski as Chief Accounting Officer, effective Feb 21, 2025
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- Anita Zielinski, 51, joins from Sysco where she was SVP & CFO of US Foodservice Operations (since 2022).
- She previously served as Sysco's SVP & Chief Accounting Officer (2017-2022) and was an audit partner at EY.
- Received a sign-on bonus of $150,000 with clawback provisions if employment terminates within 36 months.
- Joel Grade will cease as interim CAO/Principal Accounting Officer but remains EVP & CFO.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10456/000162828025003333/0001628280-25-003333-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10456/000162828025003333/bax-20250131.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-003333

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