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What Bill McDermott says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Bill McDermott

Bill McDermott

Chairman & CEO · ServiceNow, Inc.

CEO since 2019. Former SAP CEO. Aggressive growth strategy and AI focus. Known for charismatic leadership.

@BillRMcDermott
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
16/ 70
Level 1Steward

McDermott owns about 0% of ServiceNow, Inc., worth $28.2M at the last close.

SEC filings
286
Stake 210,537 reported shares ≈ 0.0% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction No open-market buys or sales in the last year 5/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 286 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 210,537 Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Aug 17, 2026
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2025-06-26 grant or award in Figma, Inc. was filed 2025-08-01, 25 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported ServiceNow, Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-08-17
0100K200K300K 2020202120222023202420252026 Aug 2026: net +12,984 shares across 6 movements (largest: exercise +15,152)May 2026: net +12,981 shares across 4 movements (largest: exercise +19,306) 210,537

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common StockDirect184,199
Common Stockby Trust24,405
Common Stockby William R. McDermott 2020 GRAT1,933
Reported as of 2026-08-17210,537
Held directly
87%
Vehicles
2 trusts or entities
Last filing
Aug 19, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 10 events folded from 38 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Aug 17, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion +4,160 — —
Aug 17, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax −2,236 $117.70 $263K
Aug 14, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots +15,152 — —
Aug 14, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax across 2 lots −8,145 $124.00 $1.0M
Aug 7, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion +8,765 — —
Aug 7, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax −4,712 $124.88 $588K
May 15, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 3 lots +19,306 — —
May 15, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax across 3 lots −10,378 $95.07 $1.0M
May 7, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion +8,765 — —
May 7, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax −4,712 $93.59 $441K
Every issuer Bill McDermott files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
FIG Figma, Inc. Director 220,594
2026-06-02		 — —
NOW ServiceNow, Inc. This page Chairman & CEO 210,537
2026-08-17		 — —
UA Under Armour, Inc. Director 185,021
2020-01-02		 — —
SCWX SecureWorks Corp Director 133,351
2019-12-31		 — —
FSR Fisker Inc./DE Director 102,791
2024-01-05		 — —
ANSS ANSYS INC Director 32,508
2019-10-31		 — —
ZM Zoom Communications, Inc. Director 15,098
2026-06-10		 — —
PAET PAETEC Holding Corp. · exited Director —
2011-11-30		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

286 filings under CIK 0001334944 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Jul 22, 2026 McDermott used the call to answer, one by one, the questions he said investors had been putting to him in meetings — and the answers were all versions of the same claim: that ServiceNow is the governed control layer every other AI bet has to run through. He asserted a ten-figure cybersecurity business now growing faster than any of the top ten cyber vendors, said the AI inflection investors keep waiting for has already happened (agentic AI in production up ninefold in nine months, AI ACV past $1 billion), dismissed seat compression by noting half of net new business is already non-seat-based, pre-announced an AI-native, ticketless service-desk product aimed at a far larger market than the Fortune 500, and committed to entering 2027 with the same headcount the company had before buying Moveworks, Veza and Armis. He closed by naming the thing he was actually asking for: a re-rating. Read the call · 8 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

7 recorded appearances

2026

Keynote ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 · May 7, 2026 · 1h 26m

Welcome to Agentic Business | ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 Opening Keynote

McDermott argued AI intelligence itself is commoditizing and the coming problem is agentic chaos, pitching ServiceNow as the control layer. He announced a total satisfaction guarantee, a sub-100-day go-live commitment, and AI Control Tower free for a year.

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