---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001059556-25-000080"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCO"
cik: "0001059556"
company_name: "MOODYS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-03-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T23:10:38.956203+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Moody's CAO Caroline Sullivan to depart April 1; Jason Phillips named successor

## Summary
- Caroline Sullivan, CAO and Corporate Controller since Dec 2018, will leave April 1, 2025 by mutual agreement.
- Jason Phillips, 48, appointed new CAO and Controller effective April 1; he joined Moody's in 2003.
- Phillips most recently served as Managing Director, Assistant Controller (Aug 2022–Mar 2025).
- No family relationships or related party transactions between Phillips and Moody's directors or officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001059556-25-000080
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCO
- cik: 0001059556
- company_name: MOODYS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000080/0001059556-25-000080-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000080/mco-20250305.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001059556-25-000080
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001059556-25-000080.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001059556-25-000080.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jason Phillips was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at MOODYS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: Succeeding Ms. Sullivan as the Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of the Company on the Effective Date will be Jason Phillips.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000080/0001059556-25-000080-index.htm
- Executive change
  Caroline Sullivan departed as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at MOODYS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: departing
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller
  source text: On March 11, 2025, Moody’s Corporation (the “Company”) announced that Caroline Sullivan, 56, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller and the Company have mutually agreed that she will be departing from her position on April 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”) and is expected to remain with the Company for a transitional period.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000080/0001059556-25-000080-index.htm

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