---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000764478-23-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBY"
cik: "0000764478"
company_name: "BEST BUY CO INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T09:52:33.532415+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Best Buy appoints Sima Sistani and Melinda Whittington to board of directors

## Summary
- Sima Sistani, CEO of WW International, and Melinda Whittington, CEO of La-Z-Boy, elected to Best Buy's board effective March 28, 2023.
- Sistani brings over 20 years of media/tech experience; Whittington brings 30+ years of financial and leadership experience.
- Sistani appointed to Nominating, Corporate Governance and Public Policy Committee; Whittington to Audit and Finance and Investment Policy Committees.
- Both directors will stand for election at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000764478-23-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBY
- cik: 0000764478
- company_name: BEST BUY CO INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764478/000076447823000009/0000764478-23-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764478/000076447823000009/bby-20230328x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000764478-23-000009
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000764478-23-000009.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000764478-23-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sima D. Sistani was elected as director at BEST BUY CO INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On March 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Best Buy Co., Inc. ("Best Buy" or the "registrant") elected Sima D. Sistani and Melinda D. Whittington as directors, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764478/000076447823000009/0000764478-23-000009-index.htm
- Executive change
  Melinda D. Whittington was elected as director at BEST BUY CO INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On March 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Best Buy Co., Inc. ("Best Buy" or the "registrant") elected Sima D. Sistani and Melinda D. Whittington as directors, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764478/000076447823000009/0000764478-23-000009-index.htm

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