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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-152112"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRU"
cik: "0001137774"
company_name: "PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T12:15:51.979313+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Prudential Financial elects Tom Stoddard as independent director, effective June 30, 2025

## Summary
- Thomas D. Stoddard elected to Board as independent director; will serve on Audit and Investment Committees.
- He brings 35 years of financial services experience, recently as vice chairman of Global Investment Banking at Bank of America.
- Previously served as group CFO at Athora Ltd. and Aviva plc, and advised AIG on its rescue and restructuring as a senior managing director at Blackstone.
- Stoddard also co-founded Barrett Ellman Stoddard Capital Partners and started his career as a corporate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-152112
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRU
- cik: 0001137774
- company_name: PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1137774/000119312525152112/0001193125-25-152112-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1137774/000119312525152112/d646391d8k.htm

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