---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-001923"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GILD"
cik: "0000882095"
company_name: "GILEAD SCIENCES, INC."
filed_at: "2022-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T20:25:07.729712+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gilead announces retirement of EVP, General Counsel Brett Pletcher; transition by summer 2022

## Summary
- Brett Pletcher plans to retire as EVP, Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
- No formal retirement date set; he will continue in role while successor is identified.
- Transition expected by end of summer 2022; Pletcher to assist in the process.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-001923
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GILD
- cik: 0000882095
- company_name: GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/000110465922001923/0001104659-22-001923-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/000110465922001923/tm221957d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-001923
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-001923.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-001923.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brett A. Pletcher departed as Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at GILEAD SCIENCES, INC..
  - Action: plans to retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On January 6, 2022, Gilead Sciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), announced that Brett A. Pletcher plans to retire from his position as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/000110465922001923/0001104659-22-001923-index.htm

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