---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-019846"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GBTG"
cik: "0001820872"
company_name: "Global Business Travel Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T20:18:14.206059+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Mohammed Al-Sowaidi resigns; Ugo Arzani appointed to GBTG Board

## Summary
- Mohammed Al-Sowaidi resigned from Board and committees effective Feb 27, 2025; not related to any disagreement.
- Ugo Arzani appointed to fill vacancies on Board and Risk Management/Compliance and Nominating/Corporate Governance Committees.
- Arzani nominated by QH Travel L.P. per Shareholders Agreement; will receive prorated non-employee director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-019846
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GBTG
- cik: 0001820872
- company_name: Global Business Travel Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000110465925019846/0001104659-25-019846-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000110465925019846/tm258139d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-019846
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-019846.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-019846.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ugo Arzani was appointed as Director at Global Business Travel Group, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 26, 2025, the Board appointed, effective as of February 27, 2025, Mr. Ugo Arzani to fill the vacancies on the Board and its Risk Management and Compliance and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees created by Mr. Saif S.S. Al-Sowaidi’s resignation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000110465925019846/0001104659-25-019846-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mohammed Saif S.S. Al-Sowaidi resigned as Director at Global Business Travel Group, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 26, 2025, Mr. Mohammed Saif S.S. Al-Sowaidi notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Global Business Travel Group, Inc. (the “Company”) of his intent to resign from his position as a member of the Company’s Board and its Risk Management and Compliance and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees, after serving on the Board since May 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000110465925019846/0001104659-25-019846-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.