---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-074787"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CCOI"
cik: "0001158324"
company_name: "COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-06-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T22:50:32.835135+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cogent Communications appoints Eve Howard to board of directors, effective July 1, 2022

## Summary
- Eve Howard, partner at Hogan Lovells, appointed to Cogent board effective July 1, 2022.
- Ms. Howard has over 30 years experience in capital markets and corporate strategy.
- Non-employee directors receive $375,000 in common stock annually, plus $1,000 per in-person board meeting.
- No arrangement or understanding for her appointment, and no related party transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-074787
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CCOI
- cik: 0001158324
- company_name: COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-06-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922074787/0001104659-22-074787-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922074787/tm2219392d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-074787.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eve Howard was appointed as director at COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 24, 2022, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ms. Eve Howard to serve as a director of the Company, effective July 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922074787/0001104659-22-074787-index.htm

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