---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001544522-24-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRSH"
cik: "0001544522"
company_name: "Freshworks Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T02:48:44.969199+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Freshworks founder Mathrubootham steps down as CEO; Woodside appointed CEO

## Summary
- Dennis Woodside, previously President, becomes CEO & President effective May 1, 2024.
- Girish Mathrubootham, founder and former CEO, transitions to Executive Chairman and remains Board Chair.
- Woodside joined Freshworks in Sept 2022; previously COO at Dropbox and CEO of Motorola Mobility.
- Mathrubootham founded Freshworks in 2010, led 2021 IPO; company now serves 67,000+ customers globally.
- Woodside to continue executing growth plan focused on enterprise and mid-market customers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001544522-24-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRSH
- cik: 0001544522
- company_name: Freshworks Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000036/0001544522-24-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000036/frsh-20240501.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-24-000036
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-24-000036.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-24-000036.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rathna Girish Mathrubootham changed role as Executive Chairman at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Mr. Rathna Girish Mathrubootham has transitioned from his position as Chief Executive Officer of the Company to the role of Executive Chairman of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000036/0001544522-24-000036-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dennis Woodside was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Dennis Woodside, the Company’s President, has also been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000036/0001544522-24-000036-index.htm

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