---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-045244"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NTAP"
cik: "0001002047"
company_name: "NetApp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T04:42:07.741216+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NetApp appoints Frank Pelzer to Board of Directors; board expands to ten

## Summary
- Frank Pelzer, COO of Spotnana and former CFO of F5, appointed to NetApp Board effective March 21, 2025.
- Board expanded from nine to ten directors; Pelzer will serve on Audit Committee.
- No arrangements or related-party transactions with Pelzer.
- Pelzer qualifies as audit committee financial expert under SEC criteria.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-045244
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NTAP
- cik: 0001002047
- company_name: NetApp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1002047/000095017025045244/0000950170-25-045244-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1002047/000095017025045244/ntap-20250321.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-045244
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-045244.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-045244.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Frank Pelzer was appointed as Director at NetApp, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of NetApp, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an increase in the number of authorized directors on the Board from nine (9) to ten (10) and appointed Frank Pelzer as a member of the Board to fill the vacancy created thereby.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1002047/000095017025045244/0000950170-25-045244-index.htm

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