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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000769397-25-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADSK"
cik: "0000769397"
company_name: "Autodesk, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T07:35:57.830352+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Autodesk settles with Starboard: appoints Epstein, Simons to board, avoids proxy fight

## Summary
- Jeff Epstein (former Oracle CFO) and Christie Simons (former Deloitte senior partner) to join Board after June 18, 2025 annual meeting.
- Starboard withdraws its director nominees and agrees to standstill and voting support through 2026 annual meeting.
- Board will expand to 12 members, 11 independent, upon their appointment.
- Autodesk will reimburse Starboard's reasonable expenses incurred since August 1, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000769397-25-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADSK
- cik: 0000769397
- company_name: Autodesk, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769397/000076939725000051/0000769397-25-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769397/000076939725000051/adsk-20250423.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000769397-25-000051
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000769397-25-000051.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000769397-25-000051.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Anna Christine Simons was appointed as director at Autodesk, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On April 23, 2025, the Board appointed Jeff Epstein and Anna Christine Simons to the Board, effective immediately following the conclusion of the 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769397/000076939725000051/0000769397-25-000051-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jeff Epstein was appointed as director at Autodesk, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On April 23, 2025, the Board appointed Jeff Epstein and Anna Christine Simons to the Board, effective immediately following the conclusion of the 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/769397/000076939725000051/0000769397-25-000051-index.htm

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