---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001528396-25-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWRE"
cik: "0001528396"
company_name: "Guidewire Software, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T09:13:14.874461+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Guidewire appoints Jeff Sloan to Board of Directors effective Jan 21, 2025

## Summary
- Jeff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments (GPN), appointed to Guidewire board.
- Sloan was a partner at Goldman Sachs through 2010 and serves on Corpay (CPAY) board.
- Term runs through 2025 annual meeting; standard non-employee director compensation.
- No arrangements or transactions requiring disclosure under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001528396-25-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWRE
- cik: 0001528396
- company_name: Guidewire Software, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528396/000152839625000022/0001528396-25-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528396/000152839625000022/gwre-20250121.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528396-25-000022
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528396-25-000022.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001528396-25-000022.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeff Sloan was appointed as director at Guidewire Software, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: Effective January 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Guidewire Software, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Jeff Sloan as a director of the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528396/000152839625000022/0001528396-25-000022-index.htm

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