---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001544522-24-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRSH"
cik: "0001544522"
company_name: "Freshworks Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T13:06:14.633534+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Freshworks appoints Philippa Lawrence as CAO and expands CFO Sloat's role as COO

## Summary
- Philippa Lawrence appointed Chief Accounting Officer, effective Aug 5, 2024; previously VP, CAO at Workday.
- Lawrence receives $425k base salary, $191,250 target bonus, and ~$5M RSU grant vesting over 4 years.
- Tyler Sloat, CFO, additionally appointed Chief Operating Officer effective Aug 5, 2024; no compensation change.
- Sloat has served as CFO since April 2020; previously CFO of Zuora, Inc.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001544522-24-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRSH
- cik: 0001544522
- company_name: Freshworks Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000050/0001544522-24-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000050/frsh-20240731.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-24-000050
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544522-24-000050.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Philippa Lawrence was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On July 31, 2024, Philippa Lawrence was hired as the Chief Accounting Officer and appointed as principal accounting officer of Freshworks Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000050/0001544522-24-000050-index.htm
- Executive change
  Tyler Sloat was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Freshworks Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Additionally, due to the expansion of his responsibilities, the Board appointed Mr. Sloat the additional role as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, effective as of August 5, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544522/000154452224000050/0001544522-24-000050-index.htm

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