---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000004904-24-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AEP"
cik: "0000004904"
company_name: "AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T06:50:07.986895+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AEP grants CFO Zebula $2.25M in RSUs as retention incentive amid CEO search delay

## Summary
- RSUs with total grant date value of $2,250,000 in lieu of standard 2025 annual LTI award.
- $1.5M vests Dec 31, 2025, or earlier on retirement with CEO approval, change of control, or death.
- Additional $125K vests on each month-end July 31 to Dec 31, 2025, if employed on those dates.
- Purpose: retain CFO during expected delay in CEO and CFO succession searches.
- Grant approved by HR Committee on April 22, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000004904-24-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AEP
- cik: 0000004904
- company_name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490424000039/0000004904-24-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490424000039/aep-20240422.htm

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