---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001528396-21-000104"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWRE"
cik: "0001528396"
company_name: "Guidewire Software, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T15:42:45.957965+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Guidewire CSO Frank O'Dowd departs; sales team to report to COO Hung

## Summary
- Frank O'Dowd and Guidewire mutually agreed to part ways; he will remain employee through end of calendar year.
- Sales team will report to COO Priscilla Hung while a search for a successor is conducted.
- Company reaffirms previously issued ARR guidance for Q1 and full fiscal year 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001528396-21-000104
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWRE
- cik: 0001528396
- company_name: Guidewire Software, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528396/000152839621000104/0001528396-21-000104-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528396/000152839621000104/gwre-20211101.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528396-21-000104
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528396-21-000104.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528396-21-000104.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Frank O'Dowd departed as Chief Sales Officer at Guidewire Software, Inc..
  - Action: mutually agreed to part ways
  - Role: Chief Sales Officer
  source text: the Company and Frank O’Dowd, the Company’s Chief Sales Officer (“CSO”), had mutually agreed to part ways, enabling him to pursue another opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528396/000152839621000104/0001528396-21-000104-index.htm

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