---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001214816-25-000093"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AXS"
cik: "0001214816"
company_name: "AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD"
filed_at: "2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T10:01:28.161583+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Corporate Controller Kent Ziegler resigns; CFO Peter Vogt named interim principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Kent Ziegler notified resignation as Global Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer effective May 1, 2025, to pursue a new opportunity.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with the company on operations, policies, or practices.
- Company has begun a search for Ziegler's replacement.
- CFO Peter Vogt will serve as interim principal accounting officer effective May 1, 2025; no additional compensation for this role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001214816-25-000093
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AXS
- cik: 0001214816
- company_name: AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
- filed_at: 2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1214816/000121481625000093/0001214816-25-000093-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1214816/000121481625000093/axs-20250416.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001214816-25-000093.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Vogt was appointed as principal accounting officer at AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD.
  - Action: will serve as
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Effective upon Mr. Ziegler’s resignation, Peter Vogt, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer on an interim basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1214816/000121481625000093/0001214816-25-000093-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kent Ziegler resigned as Global Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer at AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Global Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer
  source text: On April 16, 2025, Kent Ziegler, notified AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (the “Company”) of his resignation as Global Corporate Controller and principal accounting officer of the Company, effective as of the close of business on May 1, 2025 in order to pursue a new opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1214816/000121481625000093/0001214816-25-000093-index.htm

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