---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000731766-25-000125"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UNH"
cik: "0000731766"
company_name: "UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:25:04.909359+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Heather Cianfrocco named EVP Governance, Compliance & Info Security; Patrick Conway becomes Optum CEO

## Summary
- Heather Cianfrocco appointed EVP Governance, Compliance and Information Security effective May 6, 2025, moving from Optum CEO role.
- Patrick Conway, current CEO of Optum Rx, named CEO of Optum effective same date; joined Optum in Feb 2020.
- Changes described as consistent with long-standing leadership development approach; no departures announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000731766-25-000125
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UNH
- cik: 0000731766
- company_name: UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731766/000073176625000125/0000731766-25-000125-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731766/000073176625000125/unh-20250429.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000731766-25-000125
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000731766-25-000125.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000731766-25-000125.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Patrick Conway was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Optum at UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer of Optum
  source text: Patrick Conway, M.D., currently Chief Executive Officer of Optum Rx, has been appointed to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Optum on the Effective Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731766/000073176625000125/0000731766-25-000125-index.htm
- Executive change
  Heather Cianfrocco was appointed as Executive Vice President, Governance, Compliance and Information Security at UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Governance, Compliance and Information Security
  source text: Heather Cianfrocco, currently Chief Executive Officer of Optum, has been appointed to serve in the enterprise-wide role of Executive Vice President, Governance, Compliance and Information Security of the Company, effective May 6, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731766/000073176625000125/0000731766-25-000125-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.