---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001544522-22-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRSH"
cik: "0001544522"
company_name: "Freshworks Inc."
filed_at: "2022-09-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T17:27:41.646449+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Freshworks appoints Dennis Woodside as President and board member; reaffirms FY 2022 guidance

## Summary
- Dennis Woodside, former President of Impossible Foods and COO of Dropbox, appointed President effective Sept 1, 2022.
- Woodside will also join the board as a Class II director, term expiring at 2023 annual meeting.
- Compensation: $500K base salary, 100% target bonus, $25M RSU award, $15M option award (4-year vest).
- Company reaffirms Q3 2022 and full-year 2022 earnings guidance issued on Aug 2, 2022.
- Woodside reports to CEO Girish Mathrubootham; role is newly created.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001544522-22-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRSH
- cik: 0001544522
- company_name: Freshworks Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-09-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452222000025/0001544522-22-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452222000025/frsh-20220831.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-22-000025
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-22-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dennis Woodside was appointed as President at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President
  source text: On August 31, 2022, Freshworks Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Dennis Woodside has been appointed President and as a member of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”), in each case effective as of September 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452222000025/0001544522-22-000025-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dennis Woodside was appointed as director at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On August 31, 2022, Freshworks Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Dennis Woodside has been appointed President and as a member of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”), in each case effective as of September 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452222000025/0001544522-22-000025-index.htm

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