---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-032028"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRU"
cik: "0001137774"
company_name: "PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:47:41.763321+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Prudential appoints Robert Boyle as Controller; director Scovanner to leave board

## Summary
- Director Douglas Scovanner will not stand for reelection at May 13, 2025 annual meeting after 11+ years; departure is for personal reasons, not a disagreement.
- Robert Boyle appointed SVP, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, effective April 7, 2025.
- Boyle's base salary set at $470,000; target annual incentive $611,000; target long-term incentive $719,000; total target comp $1,800,000.
- Boyle previously served as VP and CFO of International Insurance Businesses since 2023; joined Prudential in 1998.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-032028
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRU
- cik: 0001137774
- company_name: PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-21T23:59:59+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/1137774/000119312525032028/0001193125-25-032028-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1137774/000119312525032028/d895012d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-032028.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Douglas A. Scovanner departed as Director at PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC.
  - Action: will not stand for reelection
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 19, 2025, Douglas A. Scovanner, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Prudential Financial, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Board that he will not stand for reelection to the Board at the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders, to be held on May 13, 2025, at which time he will have served on the Board for more than 11 years.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1137774/000119312525032028/0001193125-25-032028-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Boyle was appointed as Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 21, 2025, the Company announced that Robert Boyle, 59, has been appointed Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, effective April 7, 2025, succeeding Robert Axel.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1137774/000119312525032028/0001193125-25-032028-index.htm

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