---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001685040-25-000052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BHF"
cik: "0001685040"
company_name: "Brighthouse Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:53:47.012355+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brighthouse names Myles Lambert COO and Melissa Pavlovich CAO

## Summary
- Myles Lambert named COO (eff. Aug 30); base salary $700k, STI target 140%, LTI target 305%.
- Lambert receives special $1M cash award payable July 1, 2027, contingent on continued employment.
- Melissa Pavlovich appointed CAO (eff. Aug 30); base salary $425k, STI target 60%, LTI award $219,500.
- Pavlovich succeeds Richard Cook as CAO; Cook becomes Deputy CAO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001685040-25-000052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BHF
- cik: 0001685040
- company_name: Brighthouse Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504025000052/0001685040-25-000052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504025000052/bhf-20250902.htm

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