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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001660280-25-000095"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TENB"
cik: "0001660280"
company_name: "Tenable Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T10:52:25.321117+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tenable appoints Matthew Brown as CFO, effective Aug 21, 2025

## Summary
- Brown succeeds Steve Vintz, who became Co-CEO alongside Mark Thurmond.
- Brown was CFO of Altair Engineering (Jan 2021–Mar 2025) and led sale to Siemens for $10.7B.
- Annual base salary $455,000, quarterly bonus target 75% of base, new-hire RSU award $7M.
- Employment agreement includes severance of 12 months salary plus bonus upon qualifying termination.
- Brown holds a BS from UC Berkeley Haas and is a licensed CPA in California.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001660280-25-000095
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TENB
- cik: 0001660280
- company_name: Tenable Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660280/000166028025000095/0001660280-25-000095-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660280/000166028025000095/tenb-20250819.htm

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