---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001262039-25-000020"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "FTNT"
cik: "0001262039"
company_name: "Fortinet, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T04:35:02.740123+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fortinet appoints Christiane Ohlgart as CFO effective May 15, 2025

## Summary
- Ohlgart succeeds Keith Jensen, who retired on May 15, 2025, as previously disclosed.
- Base salary set at $480,000 with a target bonus of 80% of base salary.
- Expected RSU and PSU awards each valued at $500,000, subject to Board approval, with four-year vesting.
- Ohlgart continues as Principal Accounting Officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001262039-25-000020
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: FTNT
- cik: 0001262039
- company_name: Fortinet, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262039/000126203925000020/0001262039-25-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262039/000126203925000020/ftnt-20250513.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Keith Jensen retired as Chief Financial Officer at Fortinet, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Keith Jensen, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, age 66, had notified the Company that he intended to retire on May 15, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262039/000126203925000020/0001262039-25-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Christiane Ohlgart was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Fortinet, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company appointed Ms. Ohlgart to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (including as its Principal Financial Officer), effective as of the Retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262039/000126203925000020/0001262039-25-000020-index.htm

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