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Issuer:     AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC (AEP)
CIK:        0000004904
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000004904-22-000013
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AEP elects Fowke and Von Thaer as directors; director Rasmussen resigns
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- Benjamin Fowke (former Xcel CEO) and Lewis Von Thaer (Battelle CEO) elected to AEP board effective Feb 22, 2022.
- Fowke assigned to Governance, Finance, and HR committees; Von Thaer to Audit, Nuclear Oversight, and Tech committees.
- Stephen Rasmussen resigned from board effective Feb 21, 2022, citing personal reasons, no disagreement.
- Both new directors deemed independent under NASDAQ rules; will receive standard non-employee director compensation.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490422000013/0000004904-22-000013-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490422000013/aep-20220216.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004904-22-000013

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