---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000892712-22-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASB"
cik: "0000007789"
company_name: "ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP"
filed_at: "2022-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T16:39:43.407813+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Associated Banc-Corp (ASB) CFO Del Moral-Niles to retire in 2022; successor search underway

## Summary
- CFO Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles will retire later in 2022; will remain in role until successor is appointed.
- Under Early Retirement Agreement, receives $975,000 lump sum for forfeiture of unvested equity; retains vested benefits and 2021 incentive.
- Diversified Search Group retained to conduct external search for new CFO.
- Del Moral-Niles joined in 2010, became CFO in 2012; led NYSE transition, Bank Mutual and Huntington branch acquisitions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000892712-22-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASB
- cik: 0000007789
- company_name: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
- filed_at: 2022-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7789/000089271222000012/0000892712-22-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7789/000089271222000012/asb-20220119.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892712-22-000012
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892712-22-000012.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892712-22-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP.
  - Action: will retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On January 20, 2022, Associated Banc-Corp (the “Company”) announced that Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will retire from the Company in 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7789/000089271222000012/0000892712-22-000012-index.htm

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