Dan Fisher won’t be leaving Ball Corp. empty-handed.

The former CEO and chairman of the Westminster-based company, who was fired from his post on Monday, is leaving the aluminum can titan with a $6.5 million severance package, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company did not give a reason for the termination, although it said in a news release the firing was “without cause” for purposes of severance.

Fisher started as CEO in 2022 and became chairman of the board in 2023. He joined Ball in 2010.

His salary last year was $12.3 million, making him one of the highest-paid public company CEOs in Colorado. That number was 156 times the $79,128 median earnings of Ball employees, according to SEC filings.

Fisher’s wife, Trista Fisher, also spent 15 years w

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