---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001379785-24-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBDC"
cik: "0001379785"
company_name: "Barings BDC, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T13:09:04.181148+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Barings BDC Chief Accounting Officer Michael DeSieno resigns; CFO Elizabeth Murray to take over

## Summary
- Michael DeSieno notified resignation as CAO on March 14, 2024, effective March 21, 2024, to pursue other opportunities.
- Elizabeth Murray, currently CFO and COO, will serve as principal accounting officer following DeSieno's departure.
- No replacement CAO search announced; Murray will assume the role in addition to her existing duties.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001379785-24-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBDC
- cik: 0001379785
- company_name: Barings BDC, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1379785/000137978524000026/0001379785-24-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1379785/000137978524000026/bbdc-20240314.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001379785-24-000026
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001379785-24-000026.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001379785-24-000026.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Elizabeth Murray changed role as principal accounting officer at Barings BDC, Inc..
  - Action: will serve as
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Elizabeth Murray, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1379785/000137978524000026/0001379785-24-000026-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael DeSieno resigned as Chief Accounting Officer at Barings BDC, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 14, 2024, Michael DeSieno notified Barings BDC, Inc. (the “Company”) of his resignation as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, effective as of the close of business on March 21, 2024, to pursue other business opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1379785/000137978524000026/0001379785-24-000026-index.htm

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