---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-115695"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRK-B"
cik: "0001067983"
company_name: "BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:59:39.367967+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Berkshire Hathaway appoints Greg Abel as CEO effective Jan 1, 2026; Buffett remains Chairman

## Summary
- Warren Buffett recommends Greg Abel as CEO on May 3; Board unanimously votes May 4.
- Greg Abel, age 62, previously Vice Chairman – Non-Insurance Operations since 2018; CEO of BHE 2008-2018.
- Greg Abel appointed President and CEO effective January 1, 2026; Warren Buffett remains Chairman.
- No family relationship or material transactions between Abel and Berkshire since June 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-115695
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRK-B
- cik: 0001067983
- company_name: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312525115695/0001193125-25-115695-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312525115695/d28310d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-115695
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-115695.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-115695.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: b541f715b6
  claim: Warren Buffett changed role as Chief Executive Officer at BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.
  evidence_excerpt: On May 3, 2025, Mr. Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s Chairman and CEO, announced that he was going to recommend to Berkshire’s Board of Directors at its meeting to be held on May 4, 2025 that Mr. Greg Abel, Berkshire’s Vice Chairman – Non-Insurance Operations, be appointed Berkshire’s Chief Executive Officer to become effective on January 1, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312525115695/0001193125-25-115695-index.htm
- claim_id: b5a3fb86e4
  claim: Greg Abel was appointed as President and CEO at BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.
  evidence_excerpt: On May 4, 2025, Berkshire’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to appoint Mr. Abel to become Berkshire’s President and CEO effective on January 1, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312525115695/0001193125-25-115695-index.htm

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