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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001023731-21-000270"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EGHT"
cik: "0001023731"
company_name: "8X8 INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T00:45:37.508363+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# 8x8 CAO Germaine Cota resigns effective Jan 17, 2022; CFO Samuel Wilson assumes principal accounting officer role

## Summary
- Germaine Cota resigns as Chief Accounting Officer effective Jan 17, 2022; will consult through Feb 18, 2022.
- Resignation is not related to any disagreement with the Company's accounting, strategy, or practices.
- CFO Samuel Wilson will become principal accounting officer upon Cota's departure; no new compensation arrangements.
- A formal search for Cota's successor is underway.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001023731-21-000270
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EGHT
- cik: 0001023731
- company_name: 8X8 INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023731/000102373121000270/0001023731-21-000270-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023731/000102373121000270/eght-20211213.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001023731-21-000270
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001023731-21-000270.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001023731-21-000270.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Samuel Wilson was appointed as principal accounting officer at 8X8 INC /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Samuel Wilson, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will be appointed to the role of principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023731/000102373121000270/0001023731-21-000270-index.htm

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