UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 5, 2014

 

AmerisourceBergen Corporation

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (610) 727-7000

 

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

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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.

 

(c) Appointment of Principal Accounting Officer

 

On December 5, 2014, the Board of Directors of AmerisourceBergen Corporation (the “Company”) promoted Lazarus Krikorian, age 49, to Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller and appointed him to serve as principal accounting officer of the Company.  Tim G. Guttman will continue to serve as the principal financial officer in his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

 

Mr. Krikorian joined the Company in 2002 as the Assistant Corporate Controller. He was named Vice President and Corporate Controller of the Company in 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Krikorian held other financial management positions, including Senior Assurance Manager at KPMG LLP, where he spent a decade.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in the dual major of Accounting and Finance from Drexel University.

 

There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Krikorian and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as principal accounting officer of the Company.  There are no family relationships between Mr. Krikorian and the executive officers or directors of the Company and no transactions that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.  Mr. Krikorian will continue under his prior compensation arrangement with the Company without change.

 

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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.

 

 

	AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
Date: December 5, 2014	By:	/s/ Tim G. Guttman
	Name: Tim G. Guttman
	Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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