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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On August 9, 2019, Chart Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of John Bishop as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective August 21, 2019. Mr. Bishop, 45, joined the Company after serving as Head of Morgan Stanley’s Global Oilfield Services and a member of the North American Upstream team. Mr. Bishop joined Morgan Stanley in 2012 and has 17 years of global energy experience. Mr. Bishop will report to Ms. Jillian Evanko, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and his duties as Chief Operating Officer will include the oversight of the Company’s business development and investor relations functions, as well as integration and Chart business services.
Terms of Mr. Bishop’s employment are not yet finalized and will be formalized at a later time, including in a written employment agreement, which will be disclosed in an amendment to this Current Report on Form 8-K. There are no arrangements or undertakings between Mr. Bishop and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected to serve as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, nor are there any family relationships between Mr. Bishop and any of the Company’s directors or executive officers. Mr. Bishop was a managing director at Morgan Stanley and advised the Company from time to with respect to certain capital raising and M&A transactions and other advisory services.
A copy of the Company’s press release announcing this appointment is attached as Schedule 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Chart Industries, Inc. | ||||||
| Date: August 15, 2019 |
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/s/ Jillian C. Evanko | |||||
| Jillian C. Evanko | ||||||
| Chief Executive Officer and President | ||||||