Badger Meter, Inc. announced that Richard E. Johnson will retire effective early April 2019. Johnson will be succeeded as the company's Vice President-Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer by Robert A. Wrocklage effective January 1, 2019. Johnson will stay on as Senior Vice President-Administration, continuing to assist in the transition before retiring.

Wrocklage will report directly to Bockhorst. Wrocklage joined Badger Meter in August 2018 as Vice President-Finance and has been working alongside Johnson and the entire leadership team. Prior to joining Badger Meter, Wrocklage spent 10 years with Actuant Corporation, holding various corporate and business unit financial leadership roles, most recently as Vice President-Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.

The company also announced that Beverly L.P. Smiley, Vice President-Controller, will also be retiring effective in late March 2019 after an extraordinary 46 years of dedicated service to Badger Meter, the past 22 of which included controllership and principal accounting officer responsibilities. Smiley's successor will be named at a later date.