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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001544522-23-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRSH"
cik: "0001544522"
company_name: "Freshworks Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T03:26:16.429221+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Freshworks appoints Pradeep Rathinam as Chief Revenue Officer, effective May 2, 2023

## Summary
- Pradeep Rathinam, age 52, appointed permanent CRO after serving as interim CRO since November 2022.
- Previously served as Chief Customer Officer from January 2020 to November 2022; CEO of AnsweriQ before its 2020 acquisition by Freshworks.
- Executive officers as of May 2, 2023: CEO Girish Mathrubootham, President Dennis Woodside, CFO Tyler Sloat, CPO Srinivasagopalan Ramamurthy, and CRO Rathinam.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001544522-23-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRSH
- cik: 0001544522
- company_name: Freshworks Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-02T23:59:59+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/1544522/000154452223000039/0001544522-23-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452223000039/frsh-20230502.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-23-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-23-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-23-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pradeep Rathinam was appointed as Chief Revenue Officer at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Revenue Officer
  source text: the Board of Directors of Freshworks Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Pradeep Rathinam as Chief Revenue Officer and determined that, effective as of May 2, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452223000039/0001544522-23-000039-index.htm

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