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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On June 29, 2022, Yext, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Faheem Bawa as its Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and as its principal accounting officer. Effective immediately, Mr. Bawa replaced Darryl Bond as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Bond will continue to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer.
Mr. Bawa, age 37, joined the Company in March 2017 as Senior Manager, Accounting and served as the Company’s Corporate Controller since December 2017. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bawa served as Senior Manager of Accounting at Vroom from September 2016 to February 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Bawa was at Ernst & Young LLP from 2008 to 2016. Mr. Bawa holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
There are no family relationships between Mr. Bawa and any of the Company’s directors or executive officers and there are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Bawa and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as an officer. There are no related party transactions between Mr. Bawa and the Company.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| YEXT, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Ho Shin | |
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Ho Shin EVP & General Counsel |
Date: June 30, 2022