---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001718512-24-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTES"
cik: "0001718512"
company_name: "Gates Industrial Corp plc"
filed_at: "2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T04:08:21.524704+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gates appoints John Patouhas as SVP & Chief Accounting Officer, effective June 17, 2024

## Summary
- Patouhas will serve as principal accounting officer; Brooks Mallard remains EVP/CFO.
- Annual base salary of $440,000; target bonus of 55% of base; LTI target of 70%.
- One-time grant of 10,000 restricted stock units on effective date.
- Patouhas previously served as VP & CAO at Tenneco from 2015 to May 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001718512-24-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTES
- cik: 0001718512
- company_name: Gates Industrial Corp plc
- filed_at: 2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851224000051/0001718512-24-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851224000051/gtes-20240617.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718512-24-000051
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718512-24-000051.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718512-24-000051.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Patouhas was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Gates Industrial Corp plc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 17, 2024, Gates Industrial Corporation plc (the “Company”) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed John Patouhas to serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, effective June 17, 2024 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851224000051/0001718512-24-000051-index.htm

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