---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000089800-25-000128"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHW"
cik: "0000089800"
company_name: "SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO"
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:02:08.406630+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sherwin-Williams names Benjamin Meisenzahl as CFO; current CFO Mistysyn to retire

## Summary
- Allen J. Mistysyn to retire as SVP-Finance and CFO effective Dec 31, 2025 after 35 years; will assume short-term non-officer role.
- Benjamin E. Meisenzahl elected SVP-Finance and CFO effective Jan 1, 2026; 22-year Sherwin-Williams veteran, most recently SVP-Finance since May 2023.
- Meisenzahl receives $800K base salary; target annual cash incentive of 100% of base, max 200%; enters standard change-in-control severance agreement.
- Meisenzahl leads Treasury, Tax, Finance Transformation, Global Business Services; reports to CEO Heidi Petz.
- Succession described as disciplined; Mistysyn's tenure saw market cap more than triple, including Valspar integration and pandemic.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000089800-25-000128
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHW
- cik: 0000089800
- company_name: SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980025000128/0000089800-25-000128-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000008980025000128/shw-20251103.htm

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