---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000107140-24-000230"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WLY"
cik: "0000107140"
company_name: "JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T21:33:55.456462+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wiley announces CTO departure; combines technology and operations under Andrew Weber

## Summary
- Aref Matin, EVP and CTO, leaves Wiley effective December 2, 2024; eligible for severance.
- Andrew Weber promoted to EVP of Technology and Operations effective November 22, 2024.
- Weber, 57, previously SVP Operations, now leads combined tech/ops org and enterprise platform.
- Weber has 35 years experience including Macmillan COO and Random House SVP; holds Wharton BSE and Harvard MBA.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000107140-24-000230
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WLY
- cik: 0000107140
- company_name: JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000230/0000107140-24-000230-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000230/jwa-20241120.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107140-24-000230
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107140-24-000230.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Aref Matin departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC..
  - Action: leaving
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
  source text: On November 20, 2024, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (the “Company” or “Wiley”) announced that Aref Matin, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, will be leaving the Company on December 2, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000230/0000107140-24-000230-index.htm
- Executive change
  Andrew Weber was appointed as Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations at JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC..
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations
  source text: Effective November 22, 2024, Andrew Weber, Wiley’s Senior Vice President of Operations, will assume the role of Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations, where he will lead a newly combined technology and operations organization.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000230/0000107140-24-000230-index.htm

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