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accession: "0000749251-26-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IT"
cik: "0000749251"
company_name: "GARTNER INC"
filed_at: "2026-01-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T06:43:28.980528+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gartner appoints Daniela Rus (MIT AI expert) and Edward Bousa (ex-Wellington) to board

## Summary
- Board expands to 13 directors, 12 independent; Rus appointed to Governance Committee, Bousa to Audit Committee.
- Daniela Rus is MIT Panasonic Professor and director of CSAIL, with expertise in AI, robotics, and machine learning.
- Edward Bousa was Partner and Team Leader at Wellington Management, overseeing ~$90B in quality value equity strategies until 2020.
- Both directors receive standard non-employee director compensation, prorated from appointment date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000749251-26-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IT
- cik: 0000749251
- company_name: GARTNER INC
- filed_at: 2026-01-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/749251/000074925126000025/0000749251-26-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/749251/000074925126000025/it-20260129.htm

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