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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001212545-24-000317"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAL"
cik: "0001212545"
company_name: "WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION"
filed_at: "2024-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T04:37:23.523967+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Kenneth Vecchione to take medical leave; CFO Dale Gibbons named interim CEO effective Dec 16

## Summary
- CEO Vecchione will undergo bypass surgery; leave begins Dec 16, expected return late Q1 2025.
- Dale Gibbons, Vice Chair and CFO, appointed interim CEO in addition to his existing CFO duties.
- Executive Committee includes Gibbons, Chief Banking Officers Tim Bruckner and Steve Curley.
- Chairman Bruce Beach says emergency succession plan has prepared the company for this situation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001212545-24-000317
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAL
- cik: 0001212545
- company_name: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
- filed_at: 2024-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1212545/000121254524000317/0001212545-24-000317-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1212545/000121254524000317/wal-20241210.htm

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