---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-109987"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHAK"
cik: "0001620533"
company_name: "Shake Shack Inc."
filed_at: "2022-10-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T02:40:57.636762+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shake Shack appoints former Coca-Cola DEI officer Lori George Billingsley to Board

## Summary
- Appointment effective October 17, 2022; Board increased from 10 to 11 members.
- Billingsley is former Global Chief DEI Officer at Coca-Cola with over 35 years of public affairs experience.
- She will serve on the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.
- Board determined she is independent under NYSE listing standards.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-109987
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHAK
- cik: 0001620533
- company_name: Shake Shack Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-10-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465922109987/0001104659-22-109987-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465922109987/tm2228410d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-109987.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lori George Billingsley was appointed as Director at Shake Shack Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On October 17, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Shake Shack Inc. (the “ Company ”), upon the recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, increased the size of the Board of the Company from ten to eleven members and appointed Lori George Billingsley to fill the vacancy so created, both effective October 17, 2022 (the “ Effective Date ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620533/000110465922109987/0001104659-22-109987-index.htm

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