---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-073720"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UP"
cik: "0001819516"
company_name: "Wheels Up Experience Inc."
filed_at: "2022-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T23:43:25.739572+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wheels Up names Todd Smith as CFO, effective June 30, 2022

## Summary
- Todd Smith appointed CFO of Wheels Up Experience, effective June 30, 2022; also principal financial officer.
- Smith joins from GE after 25 years, most recently as Global Head of FP&A and CFO for GE Corporate.
- Base salary $575,000; target annual bonus 115% of salary (100% for 2022); $4M RSU grant vesting over 3 years.
- Smith will oversee global finance including Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Investor Relations.
- Interim CFO Eric Cabezas continues until Smith's start; remains SVP of Finance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-073720
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UP
- cik: 0001819516
- company_name: Wheels Up Experience Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922073720/0001104659-22-073720-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922073720/tm2219153d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-073720.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Todd Smith was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Wheels Up Experience Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On June 23, 2022, Wheels Up Experience Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Wheels Up Partners LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“WUP”), and Todd Smith, entered into an offer letter on June 18, 2022 for Mr. Smith to serve as WUP’s Chief Financial Officer, to be effective June 30, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922073720/0001104659-22-073720-index.htm

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