---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001284812-24-000359"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNS"
cik: "0001284812"
company_name: "COHEN & STEERS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T02:43:12.715952+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cohen & Steers appoints Karen Wilson Thissen, General Mills GC, to board

## Summary
- Appointed Karen Wilson Thissen as director effective November 7, 2024; board expands to 11.
- She joins Audit, Compensation, and Nominating/Governance committees.
- Ms. Thissen is General Counsel and Secretary of General Mills, Inc.
- Previously 17 years at Ameriprise Financial, most recently EVP and General Counsel.
- Will receive standard non-management director compensation prorated for 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001284812-24-000359
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNS
- cik: 0001284812
- company_name: COHEN & STEERS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-11-08T23:59:59+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/1284812/000128481224000359/0001284812-24-000359-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1284812/000128481224000359/cns-20241107.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001284812-24-000359.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 82d69c8282
  claim: Karen Wilson Thissen was appointed as Director at COHEN & STEERS, INC..
  evidence_excerpt: On November 7, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cohen & Steers, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Karen Wilson Thissen as a director of the Company and as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1284812/000128481224000359/0001284812-24-000359-index.htm

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