DOCUSIGN, INC. 8-K

What Happened

• DocuSign, Inc. announced in an 8-K filed May 6, 2026 that the Board appointed Rowan Trollope as a director, effective May 2, 2026. Mr. Trollope will serve as a Class III director with a term expiring at the Company’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The Board determined he qualifies as an independent director under SEC and Nasdaq standards. A press release about the appointment was furnished as Exhibit 99.1.

Key Details

• Appointment date: effective May 2, 2026; term expires at the 2027 Annual Meeting (Class III director).
• Current role: Chief Executive Officer and board member of Redis, Inc. since February 2023.
• Prior experience: CEO of Five9 (May 2018–Dec 2022); senior leadership roles at Cisco (2012–2018); former board member of Smartsheet and VeriFone.
• Compensation & governance: Mr. Trollope will be paid under DocuSign’s Amended and Restated Director Compensation Program and will enter the Company’s standard indemnity agreement; no related-party transactions were reported.

Why It Matters

• Adding a seasoned enterprise software executive and public-company CEO to the board may strengthen DocuSign’s leadership bench and governance, particularly given Trollope’s experience scaling cloud and enterprise software businesses. For investors, this is a board-level change (no operational or financial disclosures were made) that may influence oversight and strategic guidance but does not itself change the company’s financial results.