---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-026619"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DUK"
cik: "0001326160"
company_name: "Duke Energy CORP"
filed_at: "2022-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T04:39:21.317006+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Duke Energy appoints Derrick Burks to Board, amends executive short-term incentive plan

## Summary
- Derrick Burks appointed to Duke Energy Board, effective March 1, 2022, with initial term at 2022 Annual Meeting.
- Burks will serve on Audit Committee and Finance and Risk Management Committee; deemed independent and audit committee financial expert.
- Board amended Executive Short-Term Incentive Plan, removing 162(m) provisions, expanding performance objectives, adding clawback reference.
- Appointment follows November 2021 cooperation agreement with Elliott Investment Management for an additional independent director by March 31, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-026619
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DUK
- cik: 0001326160
- company_name: Duke Energy CORP
- filed_at: 2022-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465922026619/0001104659-22-026619-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465922026619/tm227424d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-026619.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Derrick Burks was appointed as Director at Duke Energy CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 24, 2022 the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Duke Energy Corporation (the “Corporation”) appointed Derrick Burks to the Board, effective March 1, 2022, with an initial term expiring at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465922026619/0001104659-22-026619-index.htm

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