CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc 8-K, filed Jan 23, 2023
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD)
About this 8-K
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc filed this 8-K on January 23, 2023, reporting on events of January 18, 2023.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
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On January 18, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Johanna Flower as a member of the Board to serve until the 2023 annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders, effective immediately, and increased the number of directors serving on the Board from eight to nine.
Ms. Flower, 48, served as CrowdStrike’s Chief Marketing Officer from January to November 2022, a role she previously held from November 2014 to August 2020. Ms. Flower focused on board service and advising companies between September 2020 and December 2021, and currently serves on the board of directors of Freshworks, Inc., a provider of modern software-as-a-service products, ForgeRock, Inc., a digital identity technology company, and several privately held companies. Ms. Flower holds a B.A. in Business Administration from University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
As a non-employee member of the Board, Ms. Flower will receive compensation for her service in accordance with the Company’s Outside Director Compensation Policy. In addition, the Company entered into its standard director indemnification agreement with Ms. Flower.
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is no arrangement or understanding with any person pursuant to which Ms. Flower was appointed as a member of the Board, and there are
no family relationships between Ms. Flower and any director or executive officer of the Company. Additionally, there are no related persons
transactions between Ms. Flower and the Company and/or its subsidiaries that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a)
of Regulation S-K. Due to Ms. Flower’s previous employment with the Company, Ms. Flower is not currently independent under applicable
Nasdaq listing rules.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. | |
| Date: January 23, 2023 | /s/ Burt W. Podbere |
Burt W. Podbere Chief Financial Officer |