April 14, 2022: Fast Company Says He Announced Nike. Fast Company Says Nike Confirmed.

REPORTING

Nike World Headquarters campus, Beaverton, Oregon

Nike World Headquarters, Beaverton, Oregon. Photo: Coolcaesar. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

On April 14, 2022, Fast Company’s Mark Wilson reported that Nike had hired Dantley Davis as vice president of digital design. The piece said Davis made the announcement on Twitter that day and that “Nike has since confirmed his hire.” It recapped his Twitter tenure, including that he had “faced accusations of fostering a hostile workplace” and “was subsequently let go in a reorg.” Those recap verbs are Fast Company’s. The 8-K said “stepping down” in an organizational change. This file does not upgrade “let go” into a for-cause finding.

The same article pointed back to Wilson’s 2021 profile for Netflix interface claims and called Davis “the first chief design officer at Twitter (and the company’s first Black executive to report to the CEO).” Again: magazine historical claims, not an EEO exhibit.

No Nike Form 8-K naming Davis was located in this pass. Confirmation, as printed, is Fast Company reporting a company confirmation. That is enough to record the announcement. It is not a securities filing.

Sources

Fast Company, April 14, 2022. Mark Wilson. “Nike’s new VP of digital design hails from Twitter and Netflix.” Nike confirmation as reported. www.fastcompany.com

Twitter, Inc. Form 8-K, Dec. 3, 2021. Prior exit language: stepping down. www.sec.gov

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

Four months after the 8-K, Nike took the call. Fast Company says Nike confirmed it. That is a hiring story. It does not erase the Times clip and it does not turn the Times clip into a conviction. Companies hire people the newspapers have already written about. They do it all the time.