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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-051371"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BAX"
cik: "0000010456"
company_name: "BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T20:50:52.219711+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Baxter EVP and Group President Alok Sonig resigns effective December 1, 2025

## Summary
- Alok Sonig, EVP and Group President, Pharmaceuticals, notified Baxter of his resignation on Nov 5, 2025.
- Departure effective Dec 1, 2025; Sonig is leaving to join another healthcare company.
- No successor for the Pharmaceuticals group president role has been announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-051371
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BAX
- cik: 0000010456
- company_name: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10456/000162828025051371/0001628280-25-051371-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10456/000162828025051371/bax-20251105.htm

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