---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-349134"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UAL"
cik: "0000100517"
company_name: "United Airlines Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T03:22:21.438215+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# United Airlines appoints Nike CFO Matthew Friend to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Matthew Friend, current EVP and CFO of Nike, elected to the Board effective December 6, 2021.
- Board size increased from 13 to 14 directors; Friend to serve on Audit and Compensation Committees.
- Friend brings over 20 years of finance and strategy experience from Nike, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs.
- CEO Scott Kirby highlighted Friend's financial acumen as United emerges from the pandemic.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-349134
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UAL
- cik: 0000100517
- company_name: United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-12-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100517/000119312521349134/0001193125-21-349134-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100517/000119312521349134/d254944d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-349134
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-349134.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-349134.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew Friend was elected as Director at United Airlines Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 6, 2021, the board of directors (the “Board”) of United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Nominating/Governance Committee, elected Matthew Friend to serve as a member of the Board effective immediately for a term continuing to the Company’s next Annual Meeting of Stockholders, when Mr. Friend will be a nominee for election by stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100517/000119312521349134/0001193125-21-349134-index.htm

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