---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001685040-21-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BHF"
cik: "0001685040"
company_name: "Brighthouse Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-09-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T06:11:17.923183+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brighthouse Financial appoints Kristine Toscano as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Kristine Toscano appointed CAO effective Sept 10, 2021; succeeds Lynn Dumais.
- Dumais steps down as CAO but remains with company to lead key initiatives; not due to accounting issues.
- Toscano previously VP, Assistant Controller at Lincoln Financial (June 2015-Aug 2021).
- Compensation: $360,000 base salary, 75% target bonus, equity awards, plus $85,000 sign-on payment and RSU grants.
- RSU awards valued at $68k, $79k, $84k vesting over three years, intended to replace prior employer incentives.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001685040-21-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BHF
- cik: 0001685040
- company_name: Brighthouse Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-09-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504021000032/0001685040-21-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504021000032/bhf-20210902.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001685040-21-000032
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001685040-21-000032.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001685040-21-000032.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lynn A. Dumais changed role as Chief Accounting Officer at Brighthouse Financial, Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Ms. Toscano will succeed Lynn A. Dumais, who will step down from the position of CAO effective as of Ms. Toscano’s appointment.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504021000032/0001685040-21-000032-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kristine H. Toscano was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Brighthouse Financial, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On September 2, 2021, the Board of Directors of Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Kristine H. Toscano as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer (“CAO”), effective September 10, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504021000032/0001685040-21-000032-index.htm

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