---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-055713"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FDS"
cik: "0001013237"
company_name: "FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:50:10.220653+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FactSet appoints Sanoke Viswanathan as CEO; Phil Snow retires after 10 years as CEO

## Summary
- Phil Snow to retire as CEO and director effective early Sept 2025; will serve as senior advisor through late 2025.
- Sanoke Viswanathan, former JPMorgan CEO of International Consumer and Wealth, appointed as new CEO effective Sept 2025.
- Viswanathan employment: $1M base salary, 200% target bonus, $22M FY2026 option award with 150% VWAP hurdle, plus make-whole awards.
- Snow's 10-year CEO tenure: FactSet more than doubled revenue, delivered double-digit EPS growth and total shareholder return.
- Succession planned; Snow's departure not due to any disagreement with company operations or policies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-055713
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FDS
- cik: 0001013237
- company_name: FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000110465925055713/0001104659-25-055713-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000110465925055713/tm2516664d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-055713
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-055713.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  F. Philip Snow retired as Chief Executive Officer at FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On June 3, 2025, FactSet Research Systems Inc. (the "Company") announced that F. Philip Snow, currently the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of the Company and a member of the board of directors of the Company (the "Board"), notified the Company on May 28, 2025 of his intention to retire as the Company’s CEO and as a member of the Board, effective upon the date his successor, Sanoke Viswanathan, starts employment with the Company as described below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000110465925055713/0001104659-25-055713-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sanoke Viswanathan was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On June 3, 2025, the Company announced that the Board has appointed Sanoke Viswanathan as its next CEO, effective on September 1, 2025 or such other mutually agreed date (the "Start Date").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000110465925055713/0001104659-25-055713-index.htm

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