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I'm doing some research on CEO's and company chairmen and I'm looking for a database that contains this data for all the public US companies. The data needs dates associated with the names as well. I'll give an example of what I'm looking for.

  • CompanyName, CeoName, StartDate, EndDate
  • Company A , Name1 , 12/04/2000, 10/17/2015
  • Company A , Name2 , 10/18/2015, currently active
  • Company B , Name3 , 05/10/2005, currently active

Not sure if the SEC provides this info or not. SEC filings mostly just get confusing for me so I might not be looking in the right place. If no database like this exists I guess I'll have to spend the next couple of weeks manually scraping wikipedia for this.

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  • $\begingroup$ How about permid? $\endgroup$
    – hroptatyr
    Sep 15, 2020 at 6:26
  • $\begingroup$ @hroptatyr I hadn't heard of them before, I will look into it if it's priced reasonably. $\endgroup$
    – TysonU
    Sep 15, 2020 at 6:34
  • $\begingroup$ Well, it's open and free, so I guess that counts as reasonable. $\endgroup$
    – hroptatyr
    Sep 15, 2020 at 7:19

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The SEC's EDGAR system has this. Companies are required to file a form 8-K to notify investors of events within a company that may be important. A CEO being replaced is one of those events, generally under item 5.02 in the 8-K.

For example, on August 3rd, 2020 Clorox (NYSE: CLX) replaced their CEO. Here is a link to their filings: CLX EDGAR filings. Go to the August 3rd 8-K, click document, click the link next to Current Report. You will find item 5.02 with the info. Another example would be Disney (NYSE: DIS). You can find the filing here: Disney 8-K 2020-02-25

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  • $\begingroup$ Ok, this will require some scraping but it should be what I want. $\endgroup$
    – TysonU
    Sep 16, 2020 at 16:32
  • $\begingroup$ @tysonu it will but the Edgar site is laid out in a way that is pretty easy to crawl through with a spider using a python library like scrapy. $\endgroup$
    – amdopt
    Sep 16, 2020 at 17:50
  • $\begingroup$ Yes, shouldn't be to hard to scrape with python. It seems as though someone also built an API wrapper for SEC filings over at sec-api.io I'm still going to need to manually extract the information I need from the 8-k. It don't seem like there is any set structure that is used so it's likely not possible to programmatically extract the names I need. $\endgroup$
    – TysonU
    Sep 16, 2020 at 18:04

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