---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-313783"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEO"
cik: "0000923796"
company_name: "GEO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T22:40:23.621045+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEO Group appoints Wayne Calabrese as COO and adds Lindsay Koren to board

## Summary
- Wayne Calabrese appointed COO effective Dec 21, 2022; previously SVP of Legal Services.
- Calabrese's prior compensation: base salary $525,000, target cash award 75% of base.
- Board expanded from 9 to 10 members; Lindsay Koren appointed director effective Dec 27, 2022.
- Anne Foreman will not seek reelection at 2023 Annual Meeting; board returns to 9 members.
- Bylaws amended to reflect board size increase, effective Dec 27, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-313783
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEO
- cik: 0000923796
- company_name: GEO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312522313783/0001193125-22-313783-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312522313783/d398856d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-313783
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-313783.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Anne Foreman departed as director at GEO GROUP INC.
  - Action: will not seek reelection
  - Role: director
  source text: Ms. Foreman will not be seeking reelection to the Board at the end of her current term at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “2023 Annual Meeting”), Upon the expiration of Ms. Foreman’s current term, the number of directors will decrease from ten to nine.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312522313783/0001193125-22-313783-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lindsay Koren was appointed as director at GEO GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: Also effective December 27, 2022, the Board appointed Ms. Lindsay Koren to serve as a director on the Board of GEO for a term expiring at the 2023 Annual Meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312522313783/0001193125-22-313783-index.htm
- Executive change
  Wayne H. Calabrese was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at GEO GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On December 21, 2022, Wayne H. Calabrese was appointed Chief Operating Officer of The GEO Group, Inc. (“GEO” or the “Company”) effective as of December 21, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312522313783/0001193125-22-313783-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  GEO GROUP INC: Approved amendment to Article V, Section 1 of Third Amended and Restated Bylaws to increase the number of directors from nine to ten until the end of Anne Foreman's term, after which it will decrease to nine (effective 2022-12-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-27
  source text: On December 27, 2022, the Board having received the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, approved an increase to the number of directors which constitute the whole Board from nine to ten members until the end of Ms. Anne Foreman’s term as a director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312522313783/0001193125-22-313783-index.htm

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