---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000908255-22-000034"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BWA"
cik: "0000908255"
company_name: "BORGWARNER INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T08:11:19.256028+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BorgWarner appoints Sailaja Shankar to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded to nine members; Shankar fills new vacancy as independent director.
- Shankar is SVP & GM of Cisco Security Business Group (CSCO).
- She will receive standard compensation for non-employee directors; no committee assignment yet.
- Previous role: SVP of Engineering at McAfee (MCFE).
- Appointment effective September 22, 2022; no material transactions with BorgWarner.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000908255-22-000034
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BWA
- cik: 0000908255
- company_name: BORGWARNER INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908255/000090825522000034/0000908255-22-000034-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908255/000090825522000034/bwa-20220922.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000908255-22-000034
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000908255-22-000034.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000908255-22-000034.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sailaja K. Shankar was appointed as Director at BORGWARNER INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 22, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of BorgWarner Inc. (the "Company") acted to increase the size of the Board to nine members and appointed Sailaja K. Shankar to the Board as an independent director to fill the vacancy created by that increase.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908255/000090825522000034/0000908255-22-000034-index.htm

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