secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CENTENE CORP (CNC)
CIK:        0001071739
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-15T20:06:58+00:00
Accession:  0001071739-26-000117
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 5.07, 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Centene holds annual meeting; formalizes executive officer roster including Finke and Carson as group presidents
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- All nine director nominees elected, including Jessica Blume, Kenneth Burdick, Christopher Coughlin; shareholder votes ratified KPMG as auditor.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 349.9M for (31.9M against).
- Shareholder proposal for independent board chairman rejected (72.8M for, 308.6M against).
- Board formally designates Daniel Finke as Group President, Medicaid & Marketplace and Michael Carson as Group President, Medicare & Specialty as executive officers.
- Executive officers defined: CEO Sarah London, CFO Drew Asher, Group Presidents Finke and Carson, COO Susan Smith, GC Christopher Koster, CAO Theodore Pienkos.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173926000117/0001071739-26-000117-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173926000117/cnc-20260512.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001071739-26-000117

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