---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-002878"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZBH"
cik: "0001136869"
company_name: "ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-01-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T02:55:22.940499+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Appoints Louis A. Shapiro, former HSS CEO, to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board increased from ten to eleven members; Shapiro fills new vacancy.
- Louis A. Shapiro was President/CEO of Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), retiring Oct 2023.
- Shapiro appointed to Audit Committee and Quality, Regulatory and Technology Committee.
- Shapiro brings industry leadership and customer perspective; no arrangements with any person for appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-002878
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZBH
- cik: 0001136869
- company_name: ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-01-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312524002878/0001193125-24-002878-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312524002878/d705355d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002878
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002878.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Louis A. Shapiro was appointed as Director at ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 5, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Corporate Governance Committee, increased the size of the Board from ten members to eleven members and appointed Louis A. Shapiro to fill the resulting vacancy, with a term to expire at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000119312524002878/0001193125-24-002878-index.htm

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