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Published: 2022-06-15 11:53:01 ET
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): June 15, 2022 (June 15, 2022)

WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware
(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

033-90866
  
25-1615902
(Commission File No.)
  
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

30 Isabella Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
15212
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
  
(Zip Code)

(412) 825-1000
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report.)


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8–K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2.):

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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Pre–commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e–4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e–4(c)) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

Title of Each Class
  
Trading
Symbol
  
Name of Each Exchange
on Which Registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
  
WAB
   New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Item 8.01.
Other Events.

The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) has appointed Linda Harty as Lead Director.  In connection with Ms. Harty’s appointment as Lead Director, the Board has also appointed Ms. Harty to chair the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

The Board has also appointed Brian Hehir as chair of the Audit Committee and Ann Klee as chair of the Compensation and Talent Management Committee Chair and as chair of the Environment, Social and Governance Subcommittee of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Each of Ms. Harty, Ms. Klee, and Mr. Hehir is independent, as independence is defined in the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange and the rules of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE
TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
     
  By:
/s/ David L. DeNinno
 
 
 
David L. DeNinno
 
Executive Vice President, General
 
Counsel and Secretary
 
 
Date: June 15, 2022