---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000092230-24-000101"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TFC"
cik: "0000092230"
company_name: "TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-11-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T01:27:39.083476+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Truist appoints Brad Bender as Chief Risk Officer; Clarke Starnes III retires after 42 years

## Summary
- Clarke Starnes III retires as Vice Chair and CRO; remains Senior Advisor through April 30, 2025.
- Brad Bender, previously interim CIO and Head of Enterprise Operational Services, named CRO effective immediately.
- Bender oversees all risk functions: credit, market, liquidity, operational, compliance, technology, regulatory relations, ethics, financial crimes.
- Starnes to receive base salary and 2024 incentive during transition; eligible for severance plan benefits after advisory role ends.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000092230-24-000101
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TFC
- cik: 0000092230
- company_name: TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-11-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92230/000009223024000101/0000092230-24-000101-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92230/000009223024000101/tfc-20241113.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092230-24-000101.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brad Bender was appointed as Chief Risk Officer at TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Risk Officer
  source text: appointed Brad Bender, who previously served as Truist’s Head of Enterprise Operational Services and interim Chief Information Officer, to the role of Truist’s Chief Risk Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92230/000009223024000101/0000092230-24-000101-index.htm
- Executive change
  Clarke R. Starnes III changed role as Vice Chair and Chief Risk Officer at TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Vice Chair and Chief Risk Officer
  source text: agreed that Clarke R. Starnes III will retire from that position and as Vice Chair
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92230/000009223024000101/0000092230-24-000101-index.htm

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