---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000759944-24-000167"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CFG"
cik: "0000759944"
company_name: "CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI"
filed_at: "2024-09-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T03:22:46.413764+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Citizens Financial appoints Claude Wade to board; Wendy Watson to retire in 2025

## Summary
- Claude E. Wade appointed to CFG Board effective March 1, 2025, temporarily expanding board to 14 directors.
- Wade will serve on the Board's Risk Committee; he is EVP, Chief Digital Officer and Global Head of Claims at AIG.
- Wendy Watson to retire after her term expires at April 2025 annual meeting; she joined board in 2010.
- Watson currently chairs the Audit Committee and serves on Risk and Compensation committees; retirement due to mandatory age.
- Wade brings 30+ years of operational, strategy and innovation experience from AIG, BlackRock, and Marsh.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000759944-24-000167
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CFG
- cik: 0000759944
- company_name: CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI
- filed_at: 2024-09-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/759944/000075994424000167/0000759944-24-000167-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/759944/000075994424000167/cfg-20240919.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000759944-24-000167
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000759944-24-000167.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000759944-24-000167.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Claude E. Wade was appointed as Director at CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 19, 2024 its board of directors (the “Board”) appointed Claude E. Wade to the Company’s Board effective March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/759944/000075994424000167/0000759944-24-000167-index.htm
- Executive change
  Wendy Watson departed as Director at CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC/RI.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: The Company also announced that Wendy Watson will retire from the Board after her current term expires at the annual meeting of shareholders in April 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/759944/000075994424000167/0000759944-24-000167-index.htm

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