---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000107263-25-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WMB"
cik: "0000107263"
company_name: "WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T20:15:07.208661+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Williams (WMB) COO Micheal Dunn to retire effective May 2, 2025; successor search underway

## Summary
- Micheal G. Dunn, EVP and COO, will retire from Williams effective May 2, 2025.
- Dunn began at Williams in 1988, spent 14 years, left, then returned in 2017.
- He oversaw large projects including Atlantic Sunrise, Regional Energy Access, and Transco expansions.
- A successor is being sought; Dunn will assist in the identification process.
- Press release furnished as Exhibit 99.1, deemed furnished not filed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000107263-25-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WMB
- cik: 0000107263
- company_name: WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000010726325000056/0000107263-25-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000010726325000056/wmb-20250313.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107263-25-000056
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107263-25-000056.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107263-25-000056.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Micheal G. Dunn departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On March 13, 2025, Micheal G. Dunn, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer indicated his intent to retire from The Williams Companies, Inc. (the “Company”) effective May 2, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000010726325000056/0000107263-25-000056-index.htm

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