---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-015644"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQIX"
cik: "0001101239"
company_name: "EQUINIX INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T01:29:24.031418+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Jeetu Patel not standing for reelection at Equinix's 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Patel notified board on March 25, 2025; term ends at May 2025 annual meeting.
- Departure due to expanded role at employer Cisco, not due to any disagreement with Equinix.
- Patel had served on the board since June 2022.
- No replacement director announced; vacancy to be addressed in future.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-015644
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQIX
- cik: 0001101239
- company_name: EQUINIX INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828025015644/0001628280-25-015644-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828025015644/eqix-20250325.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015644
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015644.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-015644.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeetu Patel departed as Director at EQUINIX INC.
  - Action: not standing for reelection
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 25, 2025, Jeetu Patel, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Equinix, Inc. (the “Company”) since June 2022, notified the Board that he would not stand for reelection as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828025015644/0001628280-25-015644-index.htm

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