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Issuer:     CARDINAL HEALTH INC (CAH)
CIK:        0000721371
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-08-05T10:39:06+00:00
Accession:  0000721371-26-000026
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Cardinal Health appoints Anita Zielinski as Chief Accounting Officer, effective Nov 5, 2026
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- Anita Zielinski, 52, previously interim CFO and CAO at Baxter International, will succeed Mary Scherer as CAO.
- Zielinski will join as SVP Finance on Sept 16, 2026, and become CAO on Nov 5, 2026.
- Compensation includes $750,000 cash sign-on bonus and $1,000,000 in time-vesting RSUs vesting over three years.
- Zielinski also eligible for annual base salary, cash bonus under MIP, and long-term equity awards.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721371/000072137126000026/0000721371-26-000026-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721371/000072137126000026/cah-20260804.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000721371-26-000026

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