---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001722482-22-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVTR"
cik: "0001722482"
company_name: "Avantor, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T08:03:57.417888+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avantor Chairman Rajiv Gupta to retire at May 12 annual meeting; board to name successor

## Summary
- Rajiv Gupta (76) will not stand for re-election; term ends at 2022 annual meeting on May 12, 2022.
- Gupta has served as Chairman since August 2010 and is also Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital.
- His decision is not due to any disagreement with Avantor's operations, policies, or practices.
- Board plans to announce a new Chair later in February 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001722482-22-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVTR
- cik: 0001722482
- company_name: Avantor, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722482/000172248222000033/0001722482-22-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722482/000172248222000033/avtr-20220210.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001722482-22-000033
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001722482-22-000033.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001722482-22-000033.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rajiv Gupta departed as Chairman of the Board at Avantor, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: On February 10, 2022, Rajiv Gupta informed Avantor, Inc. (the “Company”) that he will not stand for re-election to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2022 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722482/000172248222000033/0001722482-22-000033-index.htm

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