---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-015166"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PBI"
cik: "0000078814"
company_name: "PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-03-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T04:28:40.287637+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pitney Bowes appoints Lauren Thomas DeFina as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Lauren Thomas DeFina, age 42, named VP & CAO effective April 1, 2025.
- She most recently served as VP, Corporate Controller since October 2023; base salary raised to $318,400.
- John Witek retires as Interim CFO and CAO effective March 31, 2025.
- Robert Gold previously appointed CFO effective March 10, 2025; DeFina replaces Witek as CAO.
- DeFina holds M.S. in Accounting, B.S. from UConn, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-015166
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PBI
- cik: 0000078814
- company_name: PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-03-27T23:59:59+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/78814/000162828025015166/0001628280-25-015166-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78814/000162828025015166/pbi-20250327.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015166.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lauren Thomas DeFina was appointed as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: the Board has appointed Lauren Thomas DeFina as the Company’s Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer ( principal accounting officer ), effective as of April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78814/000162828025015166/0001628280-25-015166-index.htm
- Executive change
  John Witek departed as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at PITNEY BOWES INC /DE/.
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: John Witek, who served as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, is retiring effective March 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78814/000162828025015166/0001628280-25-015166-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.