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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001075531-26-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2026-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T07:55:59.026399+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings appoints former NXP CEO Kurt Sievers to board; Radakovich to retire

## Summary
- Appointed Kurt Sievers, former NXP Semiconductors CEO (2020-2025), to Board effective April 1, 2026.
- Sievers will join the Corporate Governance Committee; also serves on boards of Capgemini SE and Daimler Truck.
- Sievers led NXP's acquisition of Marvell's Wi-Fi business and the NXP/Freescale merger.
- Director Lynn Radakovich to retire from Board effective at June 2026 Annual Meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001075531-26-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553126000012/0001075531-26-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553126000012/bkng-20260401.htm

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