---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000047217-25-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HPQ"
cik: "0000047217"
company_name: "HP INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T07:36:29.943833+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HP expands board to 15, adds Thermo Fisher exec Pettiti as independent director

## Summary
- Board size increased from 14 to 15; Gianluca Pettiti elected director effective Feb 21, 2025.
- Pettiti is EVP and President, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Applied at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
- Appointed to Finance, Investment and Technology Committee and HR and Compensation Committee.
- Receives standard non-employee director compensation: $105k cash retainer + $220k equity retainer annually.
- Bylaws amended solely to reflect new board size; no other changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000047217-25-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HPQ
- cik: 0000047217
- company_name: HP INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721725000010/0000047217-25-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721725000010/hpq-20250221.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000047217-25-000010
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000047217-25-000010.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000047217-25-000010.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gianluca Pettiti was elected as Director at HP INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of HP Inc. (the “Company”) expanded the size of the Board and elected Gianluca Pettiti to serve as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721725000010/0000047217-25-000010-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  HP INC: Increase the number of authorized directorships from 14 to 15 (effective 2025-02-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-02-21
  source text: The amendments to the Bylaws are solely to increase the number of authorized directorships comprising the Board from 14 to 15, in connection with the appointment to the Board of Mr. Pettiti, effective as of February 21, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721725000010/0000047217-25-000010-index.htm

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