---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-414757"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BOX"
cik: "0001372612"
company_name: "BOX INC"
filed_at: "2026-10-06T01:12:34+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T16:38:11.900381+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Box appoints Omer Yuhjtman as VP, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer effective October 19, 2026

## Summary
- Omer Yuhjtman accepted Box's offer as VP, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, starting October 19, 2026; he will be principal accounting officer.
- Yuhjtman succeeds Eli Berkovitch, who intends to resign effective October 23, 2026; Box previously disclosed that resignation on September 25, 2026.
- Offer letter sets $330,000 annual base salary, a 35% discretionary bonus target, and 80,000 Class A RSUs vesting over 16 quarters (4 years).
- Yuhjtman reports to CFO Dylan Smith; he was Controller at Lambda since June 2026 and VP, Corporate Controller at Confluent from December 2025 to June 2026.
- Change in Control and Severance Agreement provides 9 months severance outside CIC and 12 months salary plus 100% target bonus and 100% equity acceleration in CIC.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-414757
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BOX
- cik: 0001372612
- company_name: BOX INC
- filed_at: 2026-10-06T01:12:34+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312526414757/0001193125-26-414757-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312526414757/d176697d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-414757
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-414757.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eli Berkovitch resigned as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at BOX INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: Mr. Yuhjtman will succeed the Company’s current Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Eli Berkovitch, who had informed the Company of his intention to resign effective October 23, 2026 and as previously disclosed by the Company in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 25, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312526414757/0001193125-26-414757-index.htm
- Executive change
  Omer Yuhjtman was appointed as Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at BOX INC.
  - Action: accepted an offer of employment
  - Role: Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On September 30, 2026, Omer Yuhjtman accepted an offer of employment to join Box, Inc. (the “Company”) as Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer commencing on October 19, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312526414757/0001193125-26-414757-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.