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Issuer:     Vertex, Inc. (VERX)
CIK:        0001806837
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-01T20:30:47+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-112847
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Vertex elects DataRobot CEO Debanjan Saha to board as Class II director effective Oct 7, 2026
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- 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.

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  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1806837/000110465926112847/0001104659-26-112847-index.htm
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