---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000354707-22-000117"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HE"
cik: "0000354707"
company_name: "HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T05:00:03.436757+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HEI appoints Yoko Otani to HEI/ASB boards, Mary Kipp to Hawaiian Electric board

## Summary
- Yoko Otani elected to HEI and American Savings Bank boards, effective Jan 1, 2023; serves on Audit & Risk and ASB Risk committees.
- Mary Kipp, president/CEO of Puget Sound Energy, joins Hawaiian Electric board; serves on Audit & Risk Committee.
- Otani brings finance, risk, and banking experience from Citibank and Promontory Financial; Kipp brings energy sector leadership.
- Tom Fargo, HEI board chair, stated the appointments support innovation across the HEI family of companies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000354707-22-000117
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HE
- cik: 0000354707
- company_name: HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354707/000035470722000117/0000354707-22-000117-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354707/000035470722000117/he-20221209.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000354707-22-000117
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000354707-22-000117.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000354707-22-000117.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Yoko Otani was elected as Director at HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Yoko Otani as a director of the Company, effective January 1, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354707/000035470722000117/0000354707-22-000117-index.htm

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