---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-031719"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IRDM"
cik: "0001418819"
company_name: "Iridium Communications Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T04:30:28.677453+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Iridium appoints HSBC executive Monique Shivanandan to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Monique Shivanandan appointed to Iridium Board effective June 17, 2025; Board size increased to 11.
- Shivanandan serves as Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer at HSBC, previously Chief Information Security Officer.
- She will serve on the Compensation Committee and is considered independent under Nasdaq rules.
- Background includes CIO roles at Chubb and Aviva, CTO at Capital One, and telecom roles at BellSouth and BT Group.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-031719
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IRDM
- cik: 0001418819
- company_name: Iridium Communications Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025031719/0001628280-25-031719-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025031719/irdm-20250617.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-031719
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-031719.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-031719.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Monique S. Shivanandan was appointed as director at Iridium Communications Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 17, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Iridium Communications Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Monique S. Shivanandan as a director of the Company, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025031719/0001628280-25-031719-index.htm

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