{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001104659-26-112847","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"VERX","cik":"0001806837","company_name":"Vertex, Inc.","filed_at":"2026-10-01T20:30:47+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-10-01T20:32:00.358715+00:00","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:25:01.902412+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.25,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.25,"confidence":"high","headline":"Vertex elects DataRobot CEO Debanjan Saha to board as Class II director effective Oct 7, 2026","bullets":["Board elected Mr. Debanjan Saha on September 30, 2026, effective October 7, 2026, upon recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee.","Saha is a Class II director with a term expiring at Vertex's 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; he has not yet been named to any Board committees.","Saha has been CEO of DataRobot, an agentic AI company, since September 2022; previously VP/GM of Data Analytics at Google Cloud and VP/GM at AWS leading database services.","Board determined Saha is independent under Nasdaq listing standards and SEC rules; he also sits on Sorenson Communications' board and its audit committee.","Compensation is Vertex's standard non-employee director program plus a pro-rated annual restricted stock award reflecting his partial year of service."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-112847","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-112847.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-112847.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-112847.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1806837/000110465926112847/0001104659-26-112847-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1806837/000110465926112847/verx-20261001x8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:25:01.902412+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}