Pure Storage, Inc. announced that on February 24, 2020, Frank Slootman, a Class II director, resigned from the Board of Directors (including the Compensation Committee) of the company, effective immediately. Mr. Slootman informed Pure that his decision to resign as a director was not due to any disagreements with Pure on any matter relating to Pure’s operations, policies or practices. On February 24, 2020, Pure’s Board of Directors appointed SAP SuccessFactors President, Greg Tomb as a Class I director to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Slootman’s resignation, effective immediately. Mr. Tomb’s term as a member of the Board will expire at the meeting of stockholders to be held in 2022. There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Tomb and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Tomb was elected as a director of Pure. There are no family relationships between Mr. Tomb and any director or executive officer of Pure, and, other than as described above, no transactions involving Mr. Tomb that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Pure Storage, Inc. is a data storage and management company. The Company is focused on delivering a disruptive data storage platform, which supports a range of structured and unstructured data, at scale and across any data workload in hybrid and public cloud environments, and includes mission-critical production, test and development, analytics, disaster recovery, backup and restore, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Its integrated hardware systems include FlashArray and FlashBlade. Its cloud-native storage includes Portworx by Pure Storage and Portworx Data Services. It delivers modern cloud-oriented services, management and automation to customers across their on-premises, private and public cloud environments. Its cloud operating model is delivered through its Pure Fusion, Evergreen architecture and Pure1 cloud management plane. The Company sells its products and subscription services using a direct sales force and its channel partners.