| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On January 3, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sprinklr, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Trac Pham as interim chief operating officer of the Company (the “Interim COO”), effective January 4, 2024 (the “Effective Date”), for a term that expires on June 30, 2024 (the “Term”). Since June 2023, Mr. Pham has served as a Class III director on the Board and as a member of the audit committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”). In connection with his role as Interim COO, Mr. Pham will resign as a member of the Audit Committee as of the Effective Date, but will remain a member of the Board and is expected to stand for reelection at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders.
Mr. Pham, age 54, served as Chief Financial Officer at Synopsys, Inc. from December 2014 to December 2022 and was responsible for Finance, Strategy and Corporate Business Development, and Information Technology. Previously, he was Vice President of Corporate Finance and Vice President of Financial Planning and Strategy at Synopsys. Mr. Pham serves on the board of directors and is the chair of the audit committee at UKG, Inc. and SiFive, Inc. Mr. Pham holds a B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley and a Master of Pacific International Affairs from the School of Global Policy & Strategy at UC San Diego, where he was a Schoepflin Fellow.
In connection with his appointment as Interim COO, the Company and Mr. Pham entered into a consulting agreement (the “Consulting Agreement”), pursuant to which Mr. Pham will be granted a restricted stock unit award under the Company’s 2021 Equity Incentive Plan, valued at $900,000. The award will vest in six substantially equal installments on each of February 4, March 4, April 4, May 4, June 4 and June 30, 2024, in each case subject to Mr. Pham’s continuous provision of services under the Consulting Agreement through such vesting date. In addition, Mr. Pham will not be eligible to receive additional compensation for his service as a member of the Board pursuant to the Company’s non-employee compensation policy during the Term.
The foregoing description of the Consulting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the complete text of the Consulting Agreement, a copy of which the Company expects to file with its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, and upon filing will be incorporated herein by reference.
The Company entered into its standard form of indemnification agreement with Mr. Pham when he joined the Board, and the agreement will continue to cover him in connection with his service as Interim COO.
There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Pham and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as the Company’s Interim COO, and there is no family relationship between Mr. Pham and any of the Company’s other executive officers or directors. Other than with respect to the Consulting Agreement and the indemnification agreement described in the previous paragraph, there are no transactions between Mr. Pham and the Company that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
| Item 7.01. | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On January 4, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Pham as the Company’s Interim COO, effective as of January 4, 2024, and the approval of a Stock Repurchase Program (as described below), as well as reaffirming the Company’s financial guidance for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year ending January 31, 2024 previously provided on December 6, 2023, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is hereby incorporated by reference.
This information set forth under Item 7.01 of this Current Report, including Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto, is furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”) or subject to the liabilities of that section. The information shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made by the Company regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
