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accession: "0001193125-23-196098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XYZ"
cik: "0001512673"
company_name: "Block, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T00:23:49.238957+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Block elects Neha Narula, MIT Digital Currency Initiative director, to board

## Summary
- Board expanded to 12 directors; Neha Narula added as Class I director effective July 27, 2023.
- Narula is Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Lab; previously senior engineer at Google.
- She serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Innovation Advisory Council.
- Narula brings expertise in Bitcoin, distributed systems, and open source technology.
- She will receive standard non-employee director compensation and has signed indemnification agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-196098
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XYZ
- cik: 0001512673
- company_name: Block, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000119312523196098/0001193125-23-196098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000119312523196098/d539859d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-196098.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Neha Narula was elected as Class I director at Block, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class I director
  source text: On July 27, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Block Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from eleven to twelve directors and elected Neha Narula to the Board as a Class I director, effective July 27, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000119312523196098/0001193125-23-196098-index.htm

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