---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000073124-25-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NTRS"
cik: "0000073124"
company_name: "NORTHERN TRUST CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T21:31:02.843184+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Northern Trust appoints former PwC global chairman and AmEx exec to board

## Summary
- Robert Moritz (former PwC global chairman) elected to Northern Trust Board, effective March 1, 2025.
- Richard Petrino (former American Express COO) elected effective January 22, 2025.
- Both also elected to board of The Northern Trust Company, effective same dates.
- Committee assignments not yet determined; compensation per standard Non-Employee Director Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000073124-25-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NTRS
- cik: 0000073124
- company_name: NORTHERN TRUST CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312425000020/0000073124-25-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312425000020/ntrs-20250122.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000073124-25-000020.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard Petrino was elected as director at NORTHERN TRUST CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 22, 2025, the Board of Directors of Northern Trust Corporation (the “Corporation”) elected Robert Moritz and Richard Petrino as directors of the Corporation, effective March 1, 2025 and January 22, 2025, respectively.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312425000020/0000073124-25-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Moritz was elected as director at NORTHERN TRUST CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 22, 2025, the Board of Directors of Northern Trust Corporation (the “Corporation”) elected Robert Moritz and Richard Petrino as directors of the Corporation, effective March 1, 2025 and January 22, 2025, respectively.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312425000020/0000073124-25-000020-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.