---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-113052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EXTR"
cik: "0001078271"
company_name: "EXTREME NETWORKS INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T18:20:44.696079+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Extreme Networks appoints Kevin Rhodes as CFO, effective May 30, 2023; interim CFO Tate steps down

## Summary
- Cristina Tate ends interim CFO role on May 30, 2023, returns to SVP Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Kevin Rhodes, former CFO of Duck Creek Technologies, named CFO and principal accounting officer.
- Rhodes receives $500k base salary, $250k sign-on bonus, and 47,500 sign-on RSUs vesting Dec 30, 2023.
- New hire equity grants: 142,250 time-vesting RSUs (3-year vest) and 189,750 PSUs tied to Russell 2000 TSR.
- Severance terms: 12 months' base salary plus $17k lump sum; enhanced change-in-control benefits.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-113052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EXTR
- cik: 0001078271
- company_name: EXTREME NETWORKS INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1078271/000119312523113052/0001193125-23-113052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1078271/000119312523113052/d498063d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-113052.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kevin Rhodes was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at EXTREME NETWORKS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Company today announced that Kevin Rhodes has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective May 30, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1078271/000119312523113052/0001193125-23-113052-index.htm
- Executive change
  Cristina Tate changed role as Interim Chief Financial Officer at EXTREME NETWORKS INC.
  - Action: ceased
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective May 30, 2023, Cristina Tate, Interim Chief Financial Officer of Extreme Networks, Inc. (the “Company”), will cease her role as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, as well as Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1078271/000119312523113052/0001193125-23-113052-index.htm

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