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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-059482"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MORN"
cik: "0001289419"
company_name: "Morningstar, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T17:47:12.318236+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Morningstar Chief Talent and Culture Officer Bevin Desmond to depart in August 2022

## Summary
- Bevin Desmond, Chief Talent and Culture Officer, will leave Morningstar in August 2022 to focus on family; successor search underway.
- Desmond joined Morningstar in 1993 and led global talent and culture since 2010, also helped launch international business.
- Compensation committee approved continued vesting of existing RSUs/MSUs and a pro-rata 2022 bonus subject to separation agreement with customary covenants.
- Departure is voluntary and described as amicable; CEO Kunal Kapoor and Executive Chairman Joe Mansueto thanked Desmond.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-059482
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MORN
- cik: 0001289419
- company_name: Morningstar, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289419/000110465922059482/0001104659-22-059482-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289419/000110465922059482/tm2215274d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-059482.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bevin Desmond departed as Chief Talent and Culture Officer at Morningstar, Inc..
  - Action: depart
  - Role: Chief Talent and Culture Officer
  source text: On May 6, 2022, Bevin Desmond, the Chief Talent and Culture Officer of Morningstar, Inc. (“Morningstar”), informed Morningstar’s Chief Executive Officer that she has decided to depart Morningstar in August 2022 to focus more time on her family.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289419/000110465922059482/0001104659-22-059482-index.htm

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