---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-000288"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARES"
cik: "0001176948"
company_name: "Ares Management Corp"
filed_at: "2022-01-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T20:30:14.536204+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Management appoints Eileen Naughton to board as independent director

## Summary
- Board expanded from 9 to 11 members; Naughton fills a new Class II vacancy.
- Naughton served as Google's Chief People Officer (2016-2021) and prior roles at Google and Time Warner.
- Appointed to Conflicts Committee; will receive standard non-executive director compensation.
- Appointment effective Dec 31, 2021; press release issued Jan 5, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-000288
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARES
- cik: 0001176948
- company_name: Ares Management Corp
- filed_at: 2022-01-05T23:59:59+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/1176948/000162828022000288/0001628280-22-000288-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828022000288/ares-20211231.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-000288
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-000288.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-000288.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eileen Naughton was appointed as Class II Director at Ares Management Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: Effective as of December 31, 2021, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Ares Management Corporation (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from nine to eleven members and appointed Eileen Naughton as a Class II director to fill one of the vacancies created by such increase.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828022000288/0001628280-22-000288-index.htm

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