---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-21-018320"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OPTU"
cik: "0001702780"
company_name: "Optimum Communications, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-09-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T04:52:20.195063+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# COO Abdelhakim Boubazine resigns; will serve as Senior Advisor through Dec 31, 2021

## Summary
- Abdelhakim Boubazine stepped down as President, Telecom and COO on Sept 9, 2021.
- He will serve as Senior Advisor to CEO through Dec 31, 2021, receiving base salary and continued option vesting.
- Post-separation, Boubazine gets one year base salary, 2021 bonus (subject to Separation Agreement), and 3 months COBRA.
- Boubazine agrees to 12-month non-compete and non-solicit covenants and mutual release of claims.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-21-018320
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OPTU
- cik: 0001702780
- company_name: Optimum Communications, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-09-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702780/000162828021018320/0001628280-21-018320-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702780/000162828021018320/atus-20210909.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Abdelhakim Boubazine resigned as Senior Advisor at Optimum Communications, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Advisor
  source text: On September 9, 2021, Altice USA, Inc. (the “Company”) and Abdelhakim Boubazine mutually agreed to Mr. Boubazine’s resignation as President, Telecom and Chief Operating Officer of the Company effective September 9, 2021 and entered into a Transition Agreement (the “Transition Agreement”) pursuant to which Mr. Boubazine will serve as a Senior Advisor to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer through December 31, 2021
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702780/000162828021018320/0001628280-21-018320-index.htm

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