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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · IDEX (IEX)

IDEX names Sean Gillen CFO effective January 5, 2026; HR chief Melissa Flores to leave

Neutral Impact 4 of 5 leadership Written later

IDEX Corporation appointed Sean M. Gillen, currently CFO of AAR CORP., as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective January 5, 2026, replacing interim CFO Akhil Mahendra, who returns to his prior role as Vice President, Corporate Development. The company also said Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Melissa S. Flores will resign effective December 19, 2025, and that it plans to fill that role externally.

Key points

  • Sean M. Gillen starts as CFO on January 5, 2026; he served as CFO of AAR CORP. from January 2019.
  • Offer terms include a $625,000 base salary, an 85% target incentive, a $3,000,000 new hire restricted stock award and a $325,000 sign-on bonus.
  • Melissa S. Flores, a named executive officer, departs effective December 19, 2025, to pursue another employment opportunity.
  • Akhil Mahendra had served as interim CFO since May 2025.

The filing

CompanyIDEX (IEX)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECDec 4, 2025, 4:54 PM ET
Accession number0001193125-25-308187

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on December 04, 2025.

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