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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-006494"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001047166"
company_name: "UNITED RENTALS NORTH AMERICA INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T22:55:26.242583+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# United Rentals appoints Julie Brandt as independent director, expanding board to 11

## Summary
- Julie M. Heuer Brandt appointed effective Jan 17, 2025; board expands from 10 to 11 members.
- Brandt is Corporate VP and President, Global Commercial & Field Operations at Johnson Controls.
- She receives $120K annual retainer and $175K equity grant (pro-rated for 2025) as compensation.
- Brandt previously had extensive global leadership roles at Otis Elevator over nearly three decades.
- Nine of the 11 board members are now independent directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-006494
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001047166
- company_name: UNITED RENTALS NORTH AMERICA INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1047166/000095017025006494/0000950170-25-006494-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1047166/000095017025006494/uri-20250117.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-006494
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-006494.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-006494.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julie M. Heuer Brandt was appointed as Director at UNITED RENTALS NORTH AMERICA INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective January 17, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of United Rentals, Inc. (the "Company") approved increasing the size of the Board from ten (10) directors to eleven (11) directors and Julie M. Heuer Brandt as an independent director of the Company to fill the vacancy.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1047166/000095017025006494/0000950170-25-006494-index.htm

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