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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-035791"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001620280"
company_name: "Uniti Group Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T11:54:46.474529+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Uniti nominates Harold Zeitz to board; Banner not standing for re-election

## Summary
- Harold Zeitz, CEO of Ziply Fiber, nominated as independent director at Uniti's 2025 annual meeting.
- Current directors Frantz (Chair), Bruce, Perez-Carlton, and CEO Gunderman nominated for re-election.
- Jennifer Banner will not stand for re-election after 10 years of service on the Board.
- New grant agreements for time-based RSAs and performance-based RSUs approved; existing agreements amended for retirement/change-in-control vesting.
- Performance period for Ronald Mudry's 2022 PBRSU award extended from Feb 2025 to Feb 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-035791
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001620280
- company_name: Uniti Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620280/000110465925035791/0001104659-25-035791-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620280/000110465925035791/tm2512510d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-035791.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jennifer Banner departed as Director at Uniti Group Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: Current director Jennifer Banner will not stand for re-election at, and her current term as a director will end, at the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620280/000110465925035791/0001104659-25-035791-index.htm
- Executive change
  Harold Zeitz was appointed as Director at Uniti Group Inc..
  - Action: nominated
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 16, 2025, the Board, on the recommendation of the Governance Committee of the Board, nominated Harold Zeitz for election to the Board as an independent director at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1620280/000110465925035791/0001104659-25-035791-index.htm

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