---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-24-000262"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CL"
cik: "0000021665"
company_name: "COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO"
filed_at: "2024-02-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T01:34:19.369659+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Colgate elects UPS CFO Brian Newman to board; Sadove to retire at May 2024 meeting

## Summary
- Brian Newman, EVP and CFO of UPS, elected to Colgate board effective March 15, 2024.
- Newman has global financial and operations experience from 26 years at PepsiCo and CFO role at UPS.
- Stephen I. Sadove, 72, will retire as director at end of current term, not standing for reelection at May 10, 2024 annual meeting.
- Newman will receive compensation as a non-employee director under Colgate's standard director compensation program.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-24-000262
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CL
- cik: 0000021665
- company_name: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
- filed_at: 2024-02-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000115752324000262/0001157523-24-000262-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000115752324000262/a53897051.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-24-000262
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-24-000262.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-24-000262.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen I. Sadove departed as Director at COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO.
  - Action: will retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: Stephen I. Sadove, 72, will retire as a director at the end of his current term and will not stand for reelection to the Board at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 10, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000115752324000262/0001157523-24-000262-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brian Newman was elected as Director at COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: elected Brian Newman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc. (“UPS”), to the Colgate Board, effective March 15, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21665/000115752324000262/0001157523-24-000262-index.htm

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