---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-163412"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEO"
cik: "0000923796"
company_name: "GEO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2024-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T04:01:39.968144+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEO Group appoints Donna Kauranen to board, expands board to nine members

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9 members; Donna Arduin Kauranen appointed as director effective June 12, 2024.
- Ms. Kauranen serves on Audit/Finance, Nominating/Governance, Corporate Planning, Executive, and Independent Committees.
- She brings over 30 years experience and has served as President of Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics since 2005.
- No arrangement with any person; no related party transactions disclosed.
- Bylaws amended to increase authorized directors from eight to nine.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-163412
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEO
- cik: 0000923796
- company_name: GEO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2024-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524163412/0001193125-24-163412-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524163412/d855800d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-163412
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-163412.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-163412.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Donna Arduin Kauranen was appointed as director at GEO GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: the Board appointed Ms. Donna Arduin Kauranen to serve as a director on the Board of GEO for a term expiring at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524163412/0001193125-24-163412-index.htm

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