---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-003625"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SSNC"
cik: "0001402436"
company_name: "SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc"
filed_at: "2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T00:53:09.285864+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SS&C appoints Debra Walton-Ruskin to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Debra Walton-Ruskin elected as Class II director effective Jan 4, 2024, to serve until 2024 annual meeting.
- Walton-Ruskin brings fintech and global markets expertise from LSEG, Refinitiv, and Thomson Reuters.
- Granted initial RSU award of $100,000 vesting on first anniversary; will participate in non-employee director compensation program.
- Board size increased from seven to eight directors; Walton-Ruskin also appointed to Nominating and Governance Committee.
- No related person transactions or employment history with SS&C; independent director.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-003625
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SSNC
- cik: 0001402436
- company_name: SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc
- filed_at: 2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017024003625/0000950170-24-003625-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017024003625/ssnc-20240104.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-003625
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-003625.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Debra Walton-Ruskin was elected as Director at SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 4, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Debra Walton-Ruskin to the Board to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in the size of the Board from seven directors to eight directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017024003625/0000950170-24-003625-index.htm

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