---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-137808"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACIW"
cik: "0000935036"
company_name: "ACI WORLDWIDE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T17:56:17.703874+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ACI Worldwide appoints Robert Leibrock as CFO and CAO effective July 1, 2025

## Summary
- Robert Leibrock joins from Red Hat, where he served as SVP, COO and CFO.
- Annual base salary $530k, STI target 80%, initial equity grants $3.1M, make-whole equity $5.5M.
- Scott Behrens will cease as CFO/CAO effective July 1, 2025, remain employee through Dec 31, 2025.
- Leibrock eligible for severance, benefits, and standard change-in-control agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-137808
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACIW
- cik: 0000935036
- company_name: ACI WORLDWIDE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935036/000119312525137808/0001193125-25-137808-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935036/000119312525137808/d927691d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-137808.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Scott Behrens departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at ACI WORLDWIDE, INC..
  - Action: will cease to serve
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Scott Behrens will cease to serve as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company effective July 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935036/000119312525137808/0001193125-25-137808-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Leibrock was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at ACI WORLDWIDE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 9, 2025, ACI Worldwide, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Robert Leibrock as its Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer effective July 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935036/000119312525137808/0001193125-25-137808-index.htm

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