Published mark
LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC
NASDAQ: LECO. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.
US
Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
- Alpha ID
- alpha:company:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb
- SEC CIK
- 0000059527
- Record version
- vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 15, 2026
- Newest evidence
- Mar 19, 2026
- Monitoring
- Not yet monitored Details
- Integrity
- Not yet signed Methodology
- CEO
- Steven B. HedlundSince Feb 25, 2026
- Chair
- Not published
- Independent
- 7 / 88 directors published
- Published claims
- 353 distinct sources
- Evidence records
- 110 pinned
- Source conflicts
- 0None open
Built from 3 distinct sources and 11 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.
CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed
Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works
CFO CHANGED
Gabriel Bruno executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
EffectiveEffective Feb 25, 2026E3
Monitoring
ContinuousWhat the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.
- IdentityunclaimedPublished
- Evidencesource_reportedPublished
- Evaluationnot_evaluatedPublished
- MonitoringNot yet published for this record.Not published
- AuthorityNot yet published for this record.Not published
- FreshnesscurrentPublished
Leadership
Evidence| Role | Person | Since | Status | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer | Gabriel Bruno | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE3 |
| Executive Vice President, President, International | Gregory Doria | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE4 |
| Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Jennifer I. Ansberry | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE5 |
| Executive Vice President, President, Global Automation | Kevin J. Whaley | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE6 |
| Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Information Officer | Lisa A. Dietrich | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE7 |
| Executive Vice President, President, Americas Welding | Michael J. Whitehead | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE8 |
| Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer | Shirley Edwards | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE9 |
| Chairman of the Board; President and Chief Executive Officer | Steven B. Hedlund | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE10 |
Board of directors
Evidence8 directors published. 7 of 8 with a published determination are independent.
| Director | Status | Since | Committees | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben P. Patel | Independent | 2018 | AuditAudit; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE2 |
| Bonnie J. Fetch | Independent | 2023 | Compensation | Source reportedE2 |
| Brian D. Chambers | Independent | 2022 | Audit | Source reportedE2 |
| Curtis E. Espeland | Independent | 2012 | Audit | Source reportedE2 |
| Kathryn Jo Lincoln | Independent | 1995 | CompensationCompensation; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE2 |
| Marc A. Howze | Independent | 2023 | CompensationCompensation; Nominating and Governance · ChairNominating and Governance, chair | Source reportedE2 |
| N. Joy Falotico | Independent | 2025 | AuditAudit; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE2 |
| Steven B. Hedlund | Not independent | 2024 | None published | Source reportedE2 |
Committees and risk ownership
Evidence| Committee | Chair | Members | Risks assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit | Not published | Ben P. Patel, Brian D. Chambers, Curtis E. Espeland, N. Joy Falotico | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Ben P. Patel, N. Joy Falotico | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation | Not published | Bonnie J. Fetch, Kathryn Jo Lincoln, Marc A. Howze | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Kathryn Jo Lincoln | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation; Nominating and Governance · Chair | Not published | Marc A. Howze | Not described in the published record |
| Nominating and Governance | Marc A. Howze | Marc A. Howze, Ben P. Patel, Kathryn Jo Lincoln, N. Joy Falotico | Not described in the published record |
Committee RecordAudit: Chair not stated; Members Ben P. Patel; Brian D. Chambers; Curtis E. Espeland; N. Joy Falotico
Committee AppointmentBen P. Patel: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentBrian D. Chambers: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentCurtis E. Espeland: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentN. Joy Falotico: member, Audit
Committee RecordCompensation: Chair not stated; Members Bonnie J. Fetch; Kathryn Jo Lincoln; Marc A. Howze
Committee AppointmentBonnie J. Fetch: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentKathryn Jo Lincoln: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentMarc A. Howze: member, Compensation
Committee RecordNominating and Governance: Chair Marc A. Howze; Members Marc A. Howze (Chair); Ben P. Patel; Kathryn Jo Lincoln; N. Joy Falotico
Committee AppointmentMarc A. Howze: chair, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentBen P. Patel: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentKathryn Jo Lincoln: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentN. Joy Falotico: member, Nominating and Governance
Control and voting power
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Authority to act
Evidence and agent registryWho can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.
Principal executive officerSteven B. Hedlund, Chairman of the Board; President and Chief Executive Officer, from Feb 25, 2026
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
Financials and market context
EvidenceSecurity ListingLECO (NASDAQ)
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 16, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.
Governance and policies
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Risk, audit, and cyber
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
AI oversight and accountability
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Legal and regulatory
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Compensation
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Other published claims
EvidencePublished Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.
Legal NameLINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Published FactUS
Published FactIndustrials
Not yet in this record
CoverageA gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.
- Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
- OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
- FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
- CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
- GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
- Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
- AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
- LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
- RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
- CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
- AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
- Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
- Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
- Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
- This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.
Linked people
Same claims as person records- Gabriel BrunoExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurercompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:14
- Gregory DoriaExecutive Vice President, President, Internationalcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:15
- Jennifer I. AnsberryExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretarycompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:16
- Kevin J. WhaleyExecutive Vice President, President, Global Automationcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:17
- Lisa A. DietrichExecutive Vice President, Chief Digital Information Officercompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:18
- Michael J. WhiteheadExecutive Vice President, President, Americas Weldingcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:19
- Shirley EdwardsExecutive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officercompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:20
- Steven B. HedlundChairman of the Board; President and Chief Executive Officer; Directorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:21, company:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:13
- Ben P. PatelDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:6
- Bonnie J. FetchDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:7
- Brian D. ChambersDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:8
- Curtis E. EspelandDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:9
- Kathryn Jo LincolnDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:10
- Marc A. HowzeDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:11
- N. Joy FaloticoDirectorcompany:a5c4cb28-4fd5-4899-9e1e-e762dbf73edb:leadership_role:12
Subject and corrections
Public-role doctrineThis record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.
- Basis
- Published company record built from public sources
- Sources
- 11 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
- Never published
- Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
- Record claimed
- No
- Open disputes
- 0
- Identity ownership
- unclaimed
Claiming not yet available
If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.
Evidence
Authority and rights- E1Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 15, 2026. Cited by 5 Claims.
- E2sec proxy. Published Mar 19, 2026. Retrieved Jul 12, 2026. Cited by 8 Claims.
- E3sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E4sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E5sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E6sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E7sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E8sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E9sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E10sec filing. Published Feb 25, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E11board_seats. board seats. Cited by 14 Claims.
What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 15, 2026- Gabriel Bruno executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Gregory Doria executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Jennifer I. Ansberry executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Kevin J. Whaley executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Lisa A. Dietrich executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Michael J. Whitehead executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Shirley Edwards executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- Steven B. Hedlund executive of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2026-02-25.
- N. Joy Falotico seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2025-01-01.
- N. Joy Falotico member of Audit; Nominating and Governance, effective 2025-01-01.
- Steven B. Hedlund seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2024-01-01.
- Bonnie J. Fetch seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2023-01-01.
- Marc A. Howze seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2023-01-01.
- Bonnie J. Fetch member of Compensation, effective 2023-01-01.
- Compensation; Nominating and Governance · Chair committee of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2023-01-01.
- Marc A. Howze member of Compensation; Nominating and Governance · Chair, effective 2023-01-01.
- Brian D. Chambers seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2022-01-01.
- Ben P. Patel seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2018-01-01.
- Audit; Nominating and Governance committee of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2018-01-01.
- Ben P. Patel member of Audit; Nominating and Governance, effective 2018-01-01.
- Curtis E. Espeland seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 2012-01-01.
- Kathryn Jo Lincoln seat on LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 1995-01-01.
- Compensation; Nominating and Governance committee of LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC, effective 1995-01-01.
- Kathryn Jo Lincoln member of Compensation; Nominating and Governance, effective 1995-01-01.