---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-24-000528"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WTRG"
cik: "0000078128"
company_name: "Essential Utilities, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T05:21:43.441527+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Essential Utilities EVP Strategy & Corp Dev resigns to become CFO of Pattern Energy

## Summary
- Matthew R. Rhodes resigned as EVP Strategy and Corporate Development on Sept 6, 2024.
- He will join Pattern Energy Group L.P. as its chief financial officer.
- Company plans to execute succession plan; no interim replacement named.
- Rhodes had led the company's successful strategy and corporate development programs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-24-000528
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WTRG
- cik: 0000078128
- company_name: Essential Utilities, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000528/0001552781-24-000528-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000528/e24390_wtrg-8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000528
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000528.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew R. Rhodes resigned as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development at Essential Utilities, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
  source text: On September 6, 2024, Matthew R. Rhodes, notified the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Essential Utilities, Inc. (the “ Company ”) of his resignation from his position as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, including any and all roles he plays in the parent company and any of its subsidiaries, to accept a position as the chief financial officer of Pattern Energy Group L.P.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000528/0001552781-24-000528-index.htm

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