Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 3, 2025
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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.
(b) – (c) On March 4, 2025, Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (the “Company”) announced that the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) appointed Jason A. Gottlieb, currently President of the Company, to succeed Eric R. Colson as Chief Executive Officer effective June 4, 2025, the date of the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Transition Date”), at which time it is expected that Mr. Gottlieb will also be elected to the Board. Additionally, the Board has appointed Mr. Colson Executive Chair and Chair of the Board, effective as of Transition Date. In this role, Mr. Colson will remain an active and engaged member of the executive management team. Ms. DiMarco, currently Chair of the Board, will transition to Lead Independent Director as of the Transition Date.
Mr. Gottlieb, 55, became President of the Company in January 2021. Prior to such time, he was Chief Operating Officer of Investments and served as Executive Vice President from February 2017. Mr. Gottlieb joined the Company in October 2016 as a Managing Director of Investment Operations.
There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Gottlieb or any other person pursuant to which he was appointed an officer of the Company, and there are no familial relationships between Mr. Gottlieb and any of the Company’s directors or executive officers.
The compensation framework for Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Colson will not change materially as a result of the change in roles and responsibilities.
The Company issued a press release announcing the transitions described above, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.
Date: March 4, 2025
| By: | /s/ Laura E. Simpson | |||||||
| Name: | Laura E. Simpson | |||||||
| Title: | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary | |||||||