---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000700564-22-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FULT"
cik: "0000700564"
company_name: "FULTON FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2022-03-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T22:31:29.629084+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fulton Financial CEO E. Philip Wenger to retire Dec 31, 2022; COO Curtis Myers named successor

## Summary
- CEO Wenger retiring after 43 years; will remain as director post-retirement.
- Curtis J. Myers, current president and COO, to become chairman, president and CEO effective Jan 1, 2023.
- Myers will continue as chairman, president and CEO of subsidiary Fulton Bank, N.A.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000700564-22-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FULT
- cik: 0000700564
- company_name: FULTON FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2022-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000070056422000015/0000700564-22-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000070056422000015/fult-20220316.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000700564-22-000015
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000700564-22-000015.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000700564-22-000015.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  E. Philip Wenger departed as chairman and chief executive officer at FULTON FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: chairman and chief executive officer
  source text: E. Philip Wenger, chairman and chief executive officer of Fulton will retire on December 31, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000070056422000015/0000700564-22-000015-index.htm
- Executive change
  Curtis J. Myers was named as chairman, president and chief executive officer at FULTON FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: named
  - Role: chairman, president and chief executive officer
  source text: Fulton’s board of directors named Curtis J. Myers, currently Fulton’s president and chief operating officer, to succeed Mr. Wenger as chairman, president and chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700564/000070056422000015/0000700564-22-000015-index.htm

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