---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-030349"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "H"
cik: "0001468174"
company_name: "Hyatt Hotels Corp"
filed_at: "2023-02-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T20:00:57.486132+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hyatt appoints Heidi O'Neill to Board; retires 100,000 Class B shares

## Summary
- Board expanded to 12; Heidi O'Neill appointed Class II director effective Feb 8, 2023.
- O'Neill also appointed to the Talent and Compensation Committee.
- Company retired 100,000 Class B shares after conversion to Class A, reducing authorized capital.
- All 100,000 Class B shares were sold by selling stockholders into the public market under Rule 144.
- Total authorized shares reduced to 1,400,912,161 (1B Class A, ~390.9M Class B, 10M preferred).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-030349
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: H
- cik: 0001468174
- company_name: Hyatt Hotels Corp
- filed_at: 2023-02-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468174/000119312523030349/0001193125-23-030349-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468174/000119312523030349/d437746d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-030349.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Heidi O'Neill was appointed as Class II Director at Hyatt Hotels Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On February 8, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Hyatt Hotels Corporation (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from eleven to twelve members and appointed Heidi O’Neill to the Board effective February 8, 2023, to hold office until the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders and until her successor is duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468174/000119312523030349/0001193125-23-030349-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Hyatt Hotels Corp: Reduction in authorized capital stock by retiring 100,000 shares of Class B Common Stock upon conversion to Class A Common Stock (effective 2023-02-09).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-09
  source text: On February 9, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Retirement with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to retire 100,000 shares of Class B common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company (the “Class B Common Stock”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468174/000119312523030349/0001193125-23-030349-index.htm

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