secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Cerence Inc. (CRNC)
CIK:        0001768267
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-026476
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.35
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Cerence GC Leanne Fitzgerald resigns; annual meeting elects directors
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- Leanne Fitzgerald resigned as General Counsel and Secretary effective Feb 2, 2022; no disagreement with company.
- Fitzgerald agreed to transitional assistance through end of FY2022; 10,642 RSUs from 2019 grant continue vesting.
- At annual meeting, shareholders elected Arun Sarin, Kristi Ann Matus, and Stefan Ortmanns as directors.
- Shareholders ratified BDO USA as independent auditor for FY2022 and approved advisory executive compensation.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation frequency set at 1 year (29,075,891 votes for 1 year).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1768267/000119312522026476/0001193125-22-026476-index.htm
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-026476

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