gwre-20210608

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Delaware

001-35394

36-4468504

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Common Stock, $0.0001 par value	GWRE	New York Stock Exchange

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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 8, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Guidewire Software, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Rajani Ramanathan as a director of the Board, effective immediately. Ms. Ramanathan's initial term will run through the Company's 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, subject to her being re-elected at that meeting. Ms. Ramanathan was also appointed to serve on the Board’s Compensation Committee and Risk Committee, effective June 9, 2021.

From June 2000 to March 2014, Ms. Ramanathan served in a variety of leadership roles at Salesforce, a cloud software company, including as its Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President – Technology and Products. Since June 2014, Ms. Ramanathan has served as a member of the board of directors of ESI Group, a French publicly traded company providing virtual prototyping software solutions and services and chairs their Technology and Marketing committee.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Ramanathan and any other person pursuant to which she was appointed as a director of the Company. Ms. Ramanathan has no family relationship with any director or executive officer of the Company. Ms. Ramanathan is not a party to and has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or proposed transaction in which the Company is or is to be a party for which disclosure would be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Ms. Ramanathan will be provided with the Company’s standard non-employee director compensation and director indemnification agreement.

On June 10, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Ms. Ramanathan as a director. A copy of this press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this current report on Form 8-K.


Exhibit No.						Description of Exhibits
99.1						Press release issued by Guidewire Software, Inc. on June 10, 2021
104						Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE, INC.

By:			/s/ JEFF COOPER
			Jeff Cooper
			Chief Financial Officer