---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001101239-25-000083"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQIX"
cik: "0001101239"
company_name: "EQUINIX INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T15:00:50.526228+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Equinix CFO Keith Taylor to retire in 2026; successor search underway

## Summary
- Taylor steps down as CFO once successor appointed, then serves as Special Advisor through March 1, 2027.
- Transition agreement: $48K/yr salary as advisor; vesting of prior equity awards continues.
- Company considering internal and external candidates; search to complete in coming months.
- Taylor has been with Equinix 27 years, guiding growth to >$9B annualized revenue.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001101239-25-000083
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQIX
- cik: 0001101239
- company_name: EQUINIX INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000110123925000083/0001101239-25-000083-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000110123925000083/eqix-20251202.htm

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