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Issuer:     AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC (AEP)
CIK:        0000004904
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-08-21T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000004904-23-000107
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AEP elects Stoddard director, Sloat as Chair; Akins & Richard exit board
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- Daniel G. Stoddard elected to AEP board effective Aug 17; former SVP & chief nuclear officer at Dominion Energy (retired Aug 1).
- Oliver G. Richard III resigned from board effective Aug 17 for personal reasons; no disagreement with company.
- Nicholas K. Akins to retire as Executive Chair and resign from board effective Oct 1, 2023 (personal reasons, no disagreement).
- Board size reduced from 13 to 12 directors effective Oct 2, 2023.
- Julia A. Sloat (CEO & President) elected Chair of the Board effective Oct 2; also appointed to Executive Committee.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490423000107/0000004904-23-000107-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490423000107/aep-20230816.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004904-23-000107

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