---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001871509-25-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PTLO"
cik: "0001871509"
company_name: "Portillo's Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T05:40:40.940748+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Portillo's appoints Chipotle President Jack Hartung to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Jack Hartung, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Chipotle, appointed to Portillo's board effective January 9, 2025.
- Hartung served 22 years as Chipotle CFO, guiding its 2006 IPO and growth from <500 to >3,600 locations.
- Appointment follows introduction by activist investor Engaged Capital; Hartung also joins Audit Committee.
- Portillo's board now has 8 directors, 7 of whom are independent.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001871509-25-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PTLO
- cik: 0001871509
- company_name: Portillo's Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1871509/000187150925000002/0001871509-25-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1871509/000187150925000002/ptlo-20250110.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001871509-25-000002
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001871509-25-000002.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001871509-25-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jack Hartung was elected as Director at Portillo's Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 9, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Portillo’s Inc. (the “Company”) elected Jack Hartung to serve on the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1871509/000187150925000002/0001871509-25-000002-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.