---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-313375"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZBH"
cik: "0001136869"
company_name: "ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2021-10-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T16:06:19.319923+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zimmer Biomet CAO Carrie Nichol to depart Nov 26; Derek Davis named interim CAO

## Summary
- Carrie Nichol, VP, Controller & CAO, leaving effective Nov 26, 2021 for another employment opportunity; no disagreement.
- Derek Davis, previously CAO (2007-2015) and VP Finance Integration, will serve as Interim Controller & CAO.
- Company will initiate search for a permanent replacement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-313375
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZBH
- cik: 0001136869
- company_name: ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-10-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312521313375/0001193125-21-313375-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312521313375/d195716d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-313375.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Derek Davis was appointed as Interim Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC..
  - Action: will serve as
  - Role: Interim Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: the Company has determined that Derek Davis, the Company’s Vice President, Finance Integration, will serve as the Interim Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, and principal accounting officer, of the Company, effective upon Ms. Nichol’s departure on November 26, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312521313375/0001193125-21-313375-index.htm
- Executive change
  Carrie Nichol departed as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC..
  - Action: will be departing
  - Role: Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On October 29, 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Carrie Nichol, the Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, and the principal accounting officer, of the Company, will be departing from the Company effective November 26, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312521313375/0001193125-21-313375-index.htm

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