---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000078890-23-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BCO"
cik: "0000078890"
company_name: "BRINKS CO"
filed_at: "2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T01:03:53.782388+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brink's Executive Chairman Douglas Pertz to retire; Michael Herling named next Chairman

## Summary
- Douglas A. Pertz will step down as Executive Chairman and retire as director at the 2023 Annual Meeting on May 5, 2023.
- Michael J. Herling, current independent Lead Director, appointed as next Chairman effective at the Annual Meeting, subject to re-election.
- With Herling's appointment, the Chairman role will again be held by an independent director.
- Pertz had been a director since 2016, served as Executive Chairman since 2022, and was CEO from 2016 to 2022.
- Herling joined the Board in 2009 and previously served as independent Chairman from 2016 to 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000078890-23-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BCO
- cik: 0000078890
- company_name: BRINKS CO
- filed_at: 2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78890/000007889023000072/0000078890-23-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78890/000007889023000072/bco-20230217.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000078890-23-000072
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000078890-23-000072.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000078890-23-000072.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Douglas A. Pertz retired as Executive Chairman at BRINKS CO.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Douglas A. Pertz will step down as Executive Chairman of the Board and will retire as a director as of the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for May 5, 2023 (the “Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78890/000007889023000072/0000078890-23-000072-index.htm

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