Moodys Corp 8-K, filed Mar 11, 2025
Moodys Corp /De/ (MCO)
8-K
2025-03-11
For: 2025-03-05
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About this 8-K
Moodys Corp filed this 8-K on March 11, 2025, reporting on events of March 5, 2025.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
UNITED STATES
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 5, 2025
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| ITEM 5.02 | DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS | 3 | ||||||
| SIGNATURES | 4 | |||||||
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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 March 11, 2025, Moody’s Corporation (the “Company”) announced that Caroline Sullivan, 56, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller and the Company have mutually agreed that she will be departing from her position on April 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”) and is expected to remain with the Company for a transitional period. Ms. Sullivan has served as the Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of the Company since December 2018.
Succeeding Ms. Sullivan as the Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of the Company on the Effective Date will be Jason Phillips. Mr. Phillips, 48, joined the Company in 2003 and has held various roles of increasing responsibility in the Controllership’s General Accounting Consolidations and External Reporting and Accounting Policy teams, including his most recent positions of Managing Director, Assistant Controller (August 2022 to March 2025) and Managing Director, Financial Reporting, Accounting Research and Policy, Consolidations (April 2020 to August 2022). Mr. Phillips holds a B.S. in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and is a CPA in New York. Mr. Phillips is an active member of FEI’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Roundtable and the AICPA.
Mr. Phillips was not selected pursuant to any arrangement or understanding between him and any other person. Mr. Phillips has no family relationships with any of our directors or executive officers. There have been no related party transactions between the Company and Mr. Phillips reportable under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
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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.
| MOODY'S CORPORATION | |||||
| By: | /s/ Elizabeth M. McCarroll | ||||
| Elizabeth M. McCarroll | |||||
| Corporate Secretary and Associate General Counsel | |||||
Date: March 11, 2025
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