---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000766421-22-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALK"
cik: "0000766421"
company_name: "ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2022-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T03:54:45.713323+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alaska Air Group controller to resign; Emily Halverson named successor

## Summary
- Christopher Berry to resign as VP finance, controller and principal accounting officer effective April 1, 2022.
- Emily Halverson, assistant controller and managing director, will succeed Berry as controller and principal accounting officer.
- Halverson joined Alaska Airlines in 2016; previously director of financial reporting; holds CPA license.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000766421-22-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALK
- cik: 0000766421
- company_name: ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766421/000076642122000011/0000766421-22-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766421/000076642122000011/alk-20220224.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000766421-22-000011
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000766421-22-000011.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christopher M. Berry departed as vice president finance, controller and principal accounting officer at ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC..
  - Action: resign
  - Role: vice president finance, controller and principal accounting officer
  source text: Christopher M. Berry announced his intention to resign effective April 1, 2022, as vice president finance, controller and principal accounting officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766421/000076642122000011/0000766421-22-000011-index.htm
- Executive change
  Emily Halverson was appointed as controller and principal accounting officer at ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: controller and principal accounting officer
  source text: Emily Halverson, the Company’s assistant controller and Alaska Airlines, Inc.’s managing director, accounting and investor relations, will succeed Mr. Berry as the Company’s controller and principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766421/000076642122000011/0000766421-22-000011-index.htm

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