---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628908-23-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EVH"
cik: "0001628908"
company_name: "Evolent Health, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-04-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T23:38:56.232121+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Evolent Health director David Farner resigns; Richard Jelinek nominated for board election

## Summary
- David Farner resigns from board effective 2023 annual meeting (June 8, 2023), triggered by UPMC ownership falling below 40%.
- Board nominates Richard Jelinek (former Aetna exec, managing partner at Czech One Capital Partners) for election.
- Previously announced director Frank Williams also departing in June 2023.
- Jelinek brings experience from Aetna, CVS Health, and OptumHealth to value-based specialty care focus.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628908-23-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EVH
- cik: 0001628908
- company_name: Evolent Health, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-04-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1628908/000162890823000056/0001628908-23-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1628908/000162890823000056/evh-20230419.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628908-23-000056.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628908-23-000056.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Farner resigned as Director at Evolent Health, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. David Farner, one of UPMC’s two director nominees, offered to tender his resignation from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). The Board accepted the resignation on April 19, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1628908/000162890823000056/0001628908-23-000056-index.htm

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