---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001408198-24-000124"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MSCI"
cik: "0001408198"
company_name: "MSCI Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T04:04:37.808430+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MSCI appoints C. Jack Read as Global Controller and CAO, effective Aug 8, 2024

## Summary
- Appointed C. Jack Read as Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, effective August 8, 2024; replaces CFO Wiechmann as principal accounting officer.
- Base salary of $500,000 per annum; target annual cash bonus $500,000; LTIP target $600,000.
- One-time sign-on cash bonus of $800,000 payable in three installments; sign-on RSU award of $500,000 vesting over five years.
- Mr. Read previously served as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Citizens Financial Group from 2018 to 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001408198-24-000124
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MSCI
- cik: 0001408198
- company_name: MSCI Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408198/000140819824000124/0001408198-24-000124-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408198/000140819824000124/msci-20240617.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408198-24-000124
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408198-24-000124.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Andrew C. Wiechmann changed role as Chief Financial Officer at MSCI Inc..
  - Action: will no longer be designated as principal accounting officer
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: In connection with Mr. Read’s appointment, Andrew C. Wiechmann, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, will no longer be designated as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408198/000140819824000124/0001408198-24-000124-index.htm
- Executive change
  C. Jack Read was appointed as Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at MSCI Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 17, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of MSCI Inc. (the “Company”) appointed C. Jack Read, to serve as the Company’s Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, and designated Mr. Read as the Company’s principal accounting officer, in each case effective August 8, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408198/000140819824000124/0001408198-24-000124-index.htm

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