Alan G. Spoon to Retire from Board June
2025
Shar Dubey Appointed as Chair of the Board
Fortive Corporation (“Fortive”) (NYSE: FTV) today announced that
its Board of Directors has appointed Sharmistha “Shar” Dubey as the
Chair of the Board. Ms. Dubey succeeds Alan G. Spoon who has
notified the Board that he will retire from the Board and not stand
for reelection at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in June
2025.
“It has been a privilege to serve as Chair of Fortive’s Board of
Directors since its spin-off from Danaher over eight years ago,”
said Mr. Spoon. “As we progress towards the completion of the
previously announced separation of the Precision Technologies
segment, this is the right time to elevate new leadership to guide
the company in its next exciting chapter. Shar has extensive
strategic, operational, and executive leadership experience as well
as deep knowledge of Fortive, which will serve the Board, the
company, and our shareholders well. I have the utmost faith in her
ability to continue to steward innovation and success at
Fortive.”
Ms. Dubey served as a Director on the Fortive Board of Directors
since 2020 and has been a member of the Nominating and Governance
and Compensation Committees. She previously served as the CEO of
Match Group, Inc. from 2020 to 2022, and prior to that, held
various leadership roles at Match Group since 2006, including as
Match Group's President, Chief Operating Officer of Tinder,
President of Match Group Americas, Chief Product Officer of Match,
and Chief Product Officer and EVP of The Princeton Review. In
addition to her role at Fortive, Ms. Dubey also has served as a
board member at Match Group since 2019 and Prosus and Naspers
Limited since 2022.
“I am honored to be elected Chair of the Board of Fortive during
this evolutionary time for the company,” said Ms. Dubey. “Alan’s
mentorship has been invaluable, and I know that I speak for the
entire Board when I say that his unwavering service and dedication
to the company has been a meaningful part of its operational and
financial success. As we move into this next phase of leadership
and growth at Fortive, the entire Board and management team remain
resolute in our commitment to creating exceptional value for our
customers, shareholders, employees, and broader communities we
serve.”
James A. Lico, the Fortive CEO, President and Director, stated,
“I extend my heartfelt thanks to Alan for his generous dedication
and service, and congratulate Shar on her well-deserved appointment
as Chair of the Fortive Board. Over the last five years, Shar has
been integral to our strategic evolution. She deeply understands
our businesses and shares our passion for innovation and continuous
improvement. Her track record of driving success by empowering
teams will continue to be incredibly valuable to Fortive going
forward.”
ABOUT FORTIVE
Fortive is a provider of essential technologies for connected
workflow solutions across a range of attractive end-markets.
Fortive’s strategic segments - Intelligent Operating Solutions,
Precision Technologies, and Advanced Healthcare Solutions - include
well-known brands with leading positions in their markets. The
company’s businesses design, develop, service, manufacture, and
market professional and engineered products, software, and
services, building upon leading brand names, innovative
technologies, and significant market positions. Fortive is
headquartered in Everett, Washington and employs a team of more
than 18,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales,
distribution, service and administrative employees in more than 50
countries around the world. With a culture rooted in continuous
improvement, the core of our company’s operating model is the
Fortive Business System. For more information please visit:
www.fortive.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements in this press release that are not strictly
historical, including statements regarding future prospects,
shareholder value, our plans to separate into two independent,
publicly-traded companies, and any other statements identified by
their use of words like “anticipate,” “expect,” “believe,”
“outlook,” “guidance,” “target”, or “will” or other words of
similar meaning, are “forward-looking statements” within the
meaning of the United States federal securities laws. Factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements include, among other things:
deterioration of or instability in the economy, the markets we
serve, geopolitical conditions and conflicts, international trade
policies and the financial markets, security breaches or other
disruptions of our information technology systems, supply chain
constraints, our ability to adjust purchases and manufacturing
capacity to reflect market conditions, reliance on sole sources of
supply, changes in trade relations with other countries,
contractions or lower growth rates and cyclicality of markets we
serve, competition, changes in industry standards and governmental
regulations, our ability to recruit and retain key employees, our
ability to successfully identify, consummate, integrate and realize
the anticipated value of appropriate acquisitions and successfully
complete divestitures and other dispositions, our ability to
develop and successfully market new products, software, and
services and expand into new markets, the potential for improper
conduct by our employees, agents or business partners, contingent
liabilities relating to acquisitions and divestitures, impact of
changes to tax laws, our compliance with applicable laws and
regulations and changes in applicable laws and regulations, risks
relating to international economic, geopolitical, including war and
sanctions, legal, compliance and business factors, risks relating
to potential impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets,
currency exchange rates, tax audits and changes in our tax rate and
income tax liabilities, the impact of our debt obligations on our
operations, litigation and other contingent liabilities including
intellectual property and environmental, health and safety matters,
our ability to adequately protect our intellectual property rights,
risks relating to product, service or software defects, product
liability and recalls, risks relating to product manufacturing, our
relationships with and the performance of our channel partners,
commodity costs and surcharges, adverse effects of restructuring
activities, our plans to separate into two independent,
publicly-traded companies, risk related to tax treatment of our
prior or pending separation, impact of our indemnification
obligation to Vontier, impact of changes to U.S. GAAP, labor
matters, and disruptions relating to man-made and natural disasters
and climate change. Additional information regarding the factors
that may cause actual results to differ materially from these
forward-looking statements is available in our SEC filings,
including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2023 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended September 27, 2024. These forward-looking statements speak
only as of the date of this presentation, and Fortive does not
assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events
and developments or otherwise.
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Elena Rosman Vice President, Investor Relations Fortive
Corporation 6920 Seaway Boulevard Everett, WA 98203 Telephone:
(425) 446-5000
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