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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-199263"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IONQ"
cik: "0001824920"
company_name: "IonQ, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-07-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T10:13:36.859213+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IonQ appoints Kathy Chou, SVP Nutanix, to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Appointed to Board effective July 11, 2022; Class II director, term expires at 2023 annual meeting.
- Chou brings enterprise engineering ops experience from Nutanix, VMware, HP, Intuit, Informatica.
- Independent director under NYSE rules; initial equity award of $400,000 vesting over three years.
- Board expanded from eight to nine; Chou to serve on Nominating/Governance and Compensation Committees.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-199263
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IONQ
- cik: 0001824920
- company_name: IonQ, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-07-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- 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/1824920/000119312522199263/0001193125-22-199263-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824920/000119312522199263/d375685d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-199263.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kathryn Chou was appointed as member of the Board at IonQ, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: member of the Board
  source text: On July 11, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of IonQ, Inc. (the “ Company ”) increased the size of the Board from eight to nine directors and, following the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, appointed Kathryn Chou to serve as a member of the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824920/000119312522199263/0001193125-22-199263-index.htm

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