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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  August 15, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

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On August 18, 2025, Myriad Genetics, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that, effective August 15, 2025, Scott J. Leffler no longer serves as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Leffler is expected to remain as a non-executive employee of the Company for an interim period to assist in the transition of his responsibilities.

On August 14, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Ben R. Wheeler, currently serving as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Operations, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer, effective August 16, 2025. Mr. Wheeler’s appointment as Chief Financial Officer was announced by the Company via press release on August 18, 2025.

Mr. Wheeler, 42, has served in various roles of increasing responsibility at the Company over the past thirteen years, including most recently as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Operations, since June 2022, and Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasury, since July 2020. Mr. Wheeler has also served at the Company as Senior Vice President, Accounting, from June 2018 to July 2020, Vice President, Corporate Controller, from December 2014 to June 2018, and in other controllership positions from December 2011 to December 2014. Before joining the Company, Mr. Wheeler served as an auditor for Ernst & Young. Mr. Wheeler holds both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Wheeler and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as an officer of the Company. Mr. Wheeler does not have any family relationship with any director or other executive officer of the Company and is not party to any related party transactions required to be reported pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

In connection with his appointment, the Company entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Wheeler, dated August 14, 2025 (the “Employment Agreement”), setting forth the terms of Mr. Wheeler’s employment, including his compensation and the commencement of his employment as Chief Financial Officer on August 16, 2025 (the “Commencement Date”). Pursuant to the Employment Agreement, Mr. Wheeler will be paid an annual base salary of $490,000. Mr. Wheeler will be eligible to receive an annual target cash bonus equal to 75% of his annual base salary upon achievement of goals to be established by the Compensation and Human Capital Committee of the Board (the “CHCC”) or the Chief Executive Officer each fiscal year and will be eligible to participate in the Company’s annual long-term incentive compensation program. Mr. Wheeler will also be eligible to participate in the standard health, welfare and retirement benefit plans that are applicable to similarly situated executives of the Company. The Employment Agreement also provides for an initial one-time grant of restricted stock units (the "Initial Grant") to Mr. Wheeler in connection with his promotion. The Initial Grant was granted on the Commencement Date and consisted of (i) 60,000 restricted stock units, subject to standard time-based vesting, and (ii) 60,000 restricted stock units, subject to vesting upon satisfaction of certain performance metrics and standard time-based vesting, as determined by the CHCC in its sole discretion, and subject to Mr. Wheeler’s continued service to the Company through the applicable vesting dates.

The Company and Mr. Wheeler also entered into the Company's standard Employee Invention Assignment, Confidentiality, and Restrictive Covenants Agreement, Severance and Change of Control Agreement and Indemnification Agreement.

The foregoing description of the Employment Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of such agreement, a copy of which will be filed with the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2025.

A copy of the press release announcing Mr. Leffler’s departure and Mr. Wheeler’s appointment as Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer on the Commencement Date is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

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.