---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-034758"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STC"
cik: "0000094344"
company_name: "STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES CORP"
filed_at: "2023-07-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T02:40:24.716358+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stewart Information Services appoints Helen Vaid to Board, effective Aug 1, 2023

## Summary
- Board expanded from 9 to 10 members; Helen Vaid appointed as new director effective August 1, 2023.
- Vaid brings experience as CEO of Foundry Brands, Global Chief Customer Officer at Pizza Hut, and roles at Walmart and HP.
- Vaid is independent under NYSE rules and will receive standard non-employee director compensation.
- She currently serves on boards of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (since Feb 2023) and Foundry.
- No arrangements or relationships requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-034758
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STC
- cik: 0000094344
- company_name: STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES CORP
- filed_at: 2023-07-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94344/000095017023034758/0000950170-23-034758-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94344/000095017023034758/stc-20230726.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-034758
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-034758.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-034758.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Helen Vaid was appointed as Director at STEWART INFORMATION SERVICES CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 26, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Stewart Information Services Corporation (the “Company”), on recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, took action to increase the size of the Board from nine to ten persons and appointed Helen Vaid as a new director to fill the vacancy created by such increase, effective on August 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94344/000095017023034758/0000950170-23-034758-index.htm

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