---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001071739-26-000070"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNC"
cik: "0001071739"
company_name: "CENTENE CORP"
filed_at: "2026-03-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T09:09:28.356339+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Centene appoints Theodore Pienkos as Corporate Controller and CAO effective March 18, 2026

## Summary
- Pienkos, 44, CPA, previously Deputy Corporate Controller since Aug 2024; joined Centene in 2011.
- Base salary set at $440,000 with target bonus of 60% of base salary.
- Former CAO Kate Casso named SVP, Finance Operations and Innovation, effective same date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001071739-26-000070
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNC
- cik: 0001071739
- company_name: CENTENE CORP
- filed_at: 2026-03-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173926000070/0001071739-26-000070-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173926000070/cnc-20260318.htm

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