---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001058290-23-000316"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CTSH"
cik: "0001058290"
company_name: "COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP"
filed_at: "2023-09-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T07:23:40.396560+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cognizant appoints Jatin Dalal as CFO; Jan Siegmund to retire early 2024

## Summary
- Jatin Dalal appointed CFO effective December 2023; succeeds Jan Siegmund retiring early 2024.
- Dalal was CFO at Wipro since 2015; will oversee finance, accounting, tax, treasury, IR.
- Total target annual comp $5.2M: base $750k, cash incentive 1x base, $1.85M PSUs, $1.85M RSUs.
- One-time awards: RSU buyout $765k, special PSUs $3.7M, $300k cash sign-on bonus.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001058290-23-000316
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CTSH
- cik: 0001058290
- company_name: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP
- filed_at: 2023-09-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1058290/000105829023000316/0001058290-23-000316-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1058290/000105829023000316/ctsh-20230928.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001058290-23-000316.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jan Siegmund departed as Chief Financial Officer at COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Mr. Dalal will succeed Jan Siegmund, who, as the Company previously disclosed, informed the Company of his intent to retire in early 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1058290/000105829023000316/0001058290-23-000316-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jatin Dalal was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: announced the appointment of Mr. Jatin Dalal as Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1058290/000105829023000316/0001058290-23-000316-index.htm

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