---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-122661"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABBV"
cik: "0001551152"
company_name: "AbbVie Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T12:16:48.949276+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AbbVie CFO promoted to EVP; Controller Durkin to retire, Buckbee named successor

## Summary
- Scott T. Reents, previously Senior VP/CFO, appointed Executive Vice President, CFO effective immediately.
- Brian L. Durkin, VP Controller, plans to retire effective March 1, 2023.
- Kevin K. Buckbee, 57, appointed Senior VP Controller effective March 1, 2023; previously VP Controller, Global Commercial Ops since Jan 2016.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-122661
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABBV
- cik: 0001551152
- company_name: AbbVie Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-29T23:59:59+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/1551152/000110465922122661/0001104659-22-122661-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551152/000110465922122661/tm2231449d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-122661
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-122661.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-122661.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kevin K. Buckbee was appointed as Senior Vice President, Controller at AbbVie Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Controller
  source text: Kevin K. Buckbee, 57, has been appointed Senior Vice President, Controller effective March 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551152/000110465922122661/0001104659-22-122661-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brian L. Durkin departed as Vice President, Controller at AbbVie Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Vice President, Controller
  source text: On November 28, 2022, Brian L. Durkin, Vice President, Controller, informed AbbVie that he plans to retire from the Controller role effective March 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551152/000110465922122661/0001104659-22-122661-index.htm
- Executive change
  Scott T. Reents was appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at AbbVie Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Scott T. Reents, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551152/000110465922122661/0001104659-22-122661-index.htm

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