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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-295514"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHPT"
cik: "0001777393"
company_name: "ChargePoint Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-10-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T21:57:27.759874+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ChargePoint designates Henrik Gerdes as Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Effective Oct 6, 2021, CAO Henrik Gerdes appointed Principal Accounting Officer, assuming duties from CFO Rex S. Jackson.
- No additional compensation or new indemnification agreement was granted for this designation.
- Gerdes has served as CAO since April 2019; previously CAO at 8x8, Inc. and VP at Rocket Fuel.
- CFO Rex S. Jackson remains Principal Financial Officer of the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-295514
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHPT
- cik: 0001777393
- company_name: ChargePoint Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-10-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777393/000119312521295514/0001193125-21-295514-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777393/000119312521295514/d88863d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Henrik Gerdes was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at ChargePoint Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: designated
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On October 6, 2021, the Board of Directors of ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) designated Henrik Gerdes, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, to serve as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer, effective as of October 6, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777393/000119312521295514/0001193125-21-295514-index.htm

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