Company: USB-PA
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-014216
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Company: US BANCORP \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02      Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.  

At a meeting held on January 28, 2025, the Board of Directors of U. S. Bancorp (the “ Board”) elected Gunjan Kedia, 54, to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of U. S. Bancorp and U. S. Bank National Association (“ U. S. Bank”), its principal banking subsidiary, effective April 15, 2025. Ms. Kedia has served as President of U. S. Bancorp and U. S. Bank since May 2024. Prior to that, she served as Vice Chair, Wealth, Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking of U. S. Bancorp and U. S. Bank from June 2023 to May 2024 and as Vice Chair, Wealth Management and Investment Services from December 2016 to June 2023. Ms. Kedia was also elected to the Board, effective immediately. Ms. Kedia is serving on the Executive Committee of the Board.

Andrew Cecere, who is currently serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U. S. Bancorp and U. S. Bank, will continue his service on the Board as Executive Chairman, effective April 15, 2025. Mr. Cecere has been Chief Executive Officer since April 2017 and Chairman since April 2018.

The base salary and target annual cash incentive award that Ms. Kedia will receive as President and Chief Executive Officer have not been determined at this time. She will receive an annual long-term incentive award, valued at $10 million as of the grant date of February 27, 2025. In accordance with the structure of all long-term incentive awards to be granted to executive officers on that date, 60% of the award’s value will be granted in the form of performance-based restricted stock units and 40% in the form of restricted stock units. The performance-based restricted stock units granted to Ms. Kedia and other executive officers in February 2025 will be earned based on the Company’s achievement of absolute and relative return on tangible common equity (“ ROTCE”) targets over a three-year performance period and a total shareholder return (“ TSR”) modifier based on the Company’s cumulative TSR performance relative to its financial peer group over the three-year performance period to further align the interests of our executives with the long-term interests of our shareholders.