---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-21-015101"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQIX"
cik: "0001101239"
company_name: "EQUINIX INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T23:46:10.354453+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Equinix director Tom Bartlett resigns to focus on CEO role at American Tower

## Summary
- Tom Bartlett resigned from Equinix's Board effective July 29, 2021.
- Bartlett had served as a director since April 2013.
- Resignation is not due to any disagreement with Equinix.
- He became CEO of American Tower in March 2020 and cited time demands from the pandemic.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-21-015101
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQIX
- cik: 0001101239
- company_name: EQUINIX INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-02T23:59:59+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/1101239/000162828021015101/0001628280-21-015101-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828021015101/eqix-20210729.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-21-015101
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-21-015101.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-21-015101.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tom Bartlett resigned as director at EQUINIX INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 29, 2021, Tom Bartlett, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Equinix, Inc. (the “Company”) since April 2013, resigned from the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828021015101/0001628280-21-015101-index.htm

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