---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001601712-22-000277"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYF"
cik: "0001601712"
company_name: "Synchrony Financial"
filed_at: "2022-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T04:09:03.752579+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Synchrony Executive Chair Margaret Keane to retire; Jeffrey Naylor named Board Chair

## Summary
- Margaret Keane, Executive Chair, will retire effective April 3, 2023.
- Jeffrey Naylor, current Lead Independent Director, will become non-executive Chair on the same date.
- Keane served as CEO from 2014-2021 and as Executive Chair since April 2021.
- Naylor has been on board since 2014; former CFO of TJX Companies and Big Lots.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001601712-22-000277
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYF
- cik: 0001601712
- company_name: Synchrony Financial
- filed_at: 2022-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601712/000160171222000277/0001601712-22-000277-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601712/000160171222000277/syf-20221215.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001601712-22-000277
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001601712-22-000277.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001601712-22-000277.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Naylor was appointed as non-executive Chair of the Board at Synchrony Financial.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: non-executive Chair of the Board
  source text: Jeffrey Naylor 63, will transition roles from Lead Independent Director to fully independent, non-executive Chair of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601712/000160171222000277/0001601712-22-000277-index.htm
- Executive change
  Margaret Keane departed as Executive Chair of the Board at Synchrony Financial.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Chair of the Board
  source text: Margaret Keane, 62, Executive Chair of the Board, will retire.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601712/000160171222000277/0001601712-22-000277-index.htm

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