---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-022476"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSBC"
cik: "0000203596"
company_name: "WESBANCO INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T00:09:05.689869+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wesbanco CEO Todd Clossin to retire Aug 1; COO Jeffrey Jackson named successor

## Summary
- Todd Clossin retires as President & CEO effective Aug 1, 2023, moving up from prior Jan 1, 2024 target.
- Jeffrey H. Jackson, SEVP & COO since Aug 2022, will succeed Clossin as President & CEO.
- Jackson previously spent 14 years at First Horizon Bank, most recently EVP & COO of regional banking.
- Clossin stays as Vice Chairman of Board and on Executive Committee after retirement.
- Under Clossin's 10-year tenure, Wesbanco tripled assets and expanded from 3 to 6 states.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-022476
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSBC
- cik: 0000203596
- company_name: WESBANCO INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000095017023022476/0000950170-23-022476-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000095017023022476/wsbc-20230516.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-022476
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-022476.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-022476.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey H. Jackson was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at WESBANCO INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: In connection with Mr. Clossin’s retirement, the Company intends to appoint Jeffrey H. Jackson, the Company’s Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, to serve as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer effective as of August 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000095017023022476/0000950170-23-022476-index.htm
- Executive change
  Todd F. Clossin departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at WESBANCO INC.
  - Action: intention to retire
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On May 16, 2023, Todd F. Clossin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wesbanco, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company of his intention to retire from employment with the Company effective August 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203596/000095017023022476/0000950170-23-022476-index.htm

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