---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001013857-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PEGA"
cik: "0001013857"
company_name: "PEGASYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T21:48:16.514164+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pega appoints Rohit Ghai (RSA CEO) to board effective Jan 16, 2025

## Summary
- Rohit Ghai appointed to Pega board effective Jan 16, 2025; board expands from 7 to 8 members.
- Ghai is CEO of RSA Security, with over 20 years in enterprise software, cybersecurity, and digital transformation.
- Compensation: $125k stock grant, $125k NSOs, $50k cash retainer (all prorated); joins Nominating & Corp Gov Committee.
- Ghai also serves on boards of D-Wave Systems and MHC; previously on Everbridge board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001013857-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PEGA
- cik: 0001013857
- company_name: PEGASYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013857/000101385725000008/0001013857-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013857/000101385725000008/pega-20250116.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001013857-25-000008
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001013857-25-000008.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001013857-25-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rohit Ghai was appointed as Director at PEGASYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 16, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Pegasystems Inc. (the “Corporation”) appointed Rohit Ghai as a new member of the Board effective January 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013857/000101385725000008/0001013857-25-000008-index.htm

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