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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 October 4, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of TE Connectivity plc (the “Company”) appointed Sam Eldessouky as a director of the Company, and the number of directors constituting the full Board was increased from 11 to 12. Mr. Eldessouky was appointed to serve on the Audit Committee and the Joint Committee on Cybersecurity of the Board and will receive compensation for services as a non-employee director of the Company consistent with the compensation generally provided to other non-employee directors of the Company. There are no arrangements or understandings between the new director and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director, and there are no transactions involving the Company and the new director that the Company would be required to report pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Mr. Eldessouky will enter into standard indemnification agreements with the Company and TE Connectivity Corporation, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary. The Company’s form of deed of indemnification and form of indemnification agreement with TE Connectivity Corporation were filed as Exhibit 10.2 and Exhibit 10.3, respectively, to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 30, 2024.
A copy of the press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Eldessouky is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
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| 99.1 | Press release issued on October 4, 2024, announcing the appointment of Sam Eldessouky to the Board of Directors of TE Connectivity plc | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURES
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.
| Date: October 4, 2024 | TE CONNECTIVITY PLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Harold G. Barksdale | ||
| Name: | Harold G. Barksdale | ||
| Title: | Vice President and Corporate Secretary | ||