<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001618732-17-000146.txt : 20171031
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001618732-17-000146
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20171027
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20171031
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20171031

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Nutanix, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001618732
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372]
		IRS NUMBER:				270989767
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0731

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-37883
		FILM NUMBER:		171165818

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1740 TECHNOLOGY DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 150
		CITY:			SAN JOSE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			95110
		BUSINESS PHONE:		408-216-8360

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1740 TECHNOLOGY DRIVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 150
		CITY:			SAN JOSE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			95110
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D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:18pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;">FORM 8&#8209;K</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">CURRENT REPORT</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">The Securities Exchange Act of 1934</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">October 27, 2017</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:18pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;">NUTANIX, INC.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"><table 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style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(Commission File Number)</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(IRS Employer <br>Identification No.)</font></div></td></tr></table></div></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;">1740 Technology Drive, Suite&#160;150</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;">San Jose, California 95110</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">(408) 216-8360</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(Registrant&#8217;s telephone number, including area code)</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Not Applicable</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;text-align:left;padding-left:18px;text-indent:-19px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">[  ] Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;text-align:left;padding-left:18px;text-indent:-19px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">[  ] Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;text-align:left;padding-left:18px;text-indent:-19px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">[  ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;padding-left:18px;text-indent:-19px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">[  ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div><div style="line-height:120%;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">On October 27, 2017, Bipul Sinha resigned from his role as a member of the Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) of Nutanix, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;). Mr. Sinha&#8217;s decision was not due to any disagreement with the Company or its management. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Also on October 27, 2017, the Board expanded the size of the Board from seven (7) to eight (8) members and appointed Susan L. Bostrom and Craig Conway to serve as Class I and Class II directors, respectively. The Board determined that Ms. Bostrom and Mr. Conway are independent directors under the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;) and within the meaning of the NASDAQ Global Select Market&#8217;s listing standards. There is no arrangement or understanding between either Ms. Bostrom or Mr. Conway, on the one hand, and any other persons, on the other, pursuant to which either Ms. Bostrom or Mr. Conway was selected as a director. Neither Ms. Bostrom nor Mr. Conway has any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Ms. Bostrom and Mr. Conway will receive the standard compensation and equity awards provided to non-employee directors of the Company and committee members for their service pursuant to the Company&#8217;s Outside Director Compensation Policy, which was filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company&#8217;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2017 filed with the SEC on March 10, 2017. In addition, it is expected that each of Ms. Bostrom and Mr. Conway will enter into the Company&#8217;s standard form of director indemnification agreement, which was filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company&#8217;s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on December 22, 2015.</font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 9.01. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Financial Statements and Exhibits.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:9px;text-align:left;-sec-extract:summary;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:9px;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font 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<div><a name="s8b59abb90e8d4c1692f442526deb4d3c"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 99.1</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Nutanix Appoints Craig Conway and Sue Bostrom to Board of Directors</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;">Former PeopleSoft and Cisco Executives Add Deep Software and Marketing Leadership Experience</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">SAN JOSE, Calif. - October 31, 2017 </font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">- </font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;">Nutanix</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">&#32;(NASDAQ: </font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;">NTNX</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced today it has added Craig Conway and Sue Bostrom to its board of directors, effective Friday, October 27, 2017.  </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">&#8220;Craig and Sue are substantive additions to our board, and come at a time when we go from being a product to a platform company for the enterprise,&#8221; said Dheeraj Pandey, Chairman, Founder, and CEO of Nutanix. &#8220;Sue and Craig have both seen sustainable growth up close, steered large businesses through the highs and lows of enterprise spending cycles, and epitomized ambition and attention-to-detail in their illustrious careers. 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He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Brockport. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">Bostrom served as Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Worldwide Government Affairs of Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking equipment provider, from 2006 to 2011. From 1997 to 2011, she held various leadership positions at Cisco, including Senior Vice President of the Internet Business Solutions Group, which shared Internet best practices with global Fortune 500 companies and governments. Ms. Bostrom serves on the board of directors of ServiceNow, Inc., an enterprise software company, Varian Medical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of medical devices and software, and Cadence Design Systems, Inc., an electronic design software company. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">&#8220;It&#8217;s an exciting time to join the board of directors at Nutanix. They are a software company at their core and and they have the right solutions and talent to take advantage of the growing enterprise cloud market,&#8221; said Conway. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to providing guidance to help grow the company even more, and strengthen its position as a leading provider of multi-cloud software and solutions.&#8221; </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">&#8220;Nutanix is delivering the right solutions to the right market at the right time,&#8221; said Bostrom. &#8220;Continued strategic focus and precise execution is needed to expand software sales while keeping customers delighted. 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The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications. Learn more at </font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:underline;">www.nutanix.com</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">&#32;or follow us on Twitter </font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:underline;">@nutanix</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;">&#169; 2017 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix and the Nutanix logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;">Media Contact</font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Lena Rogow</font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Communications Specialist</font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">(415) 218-3773</font></div><div style="line-height:174%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;">lena.rogow@nutanix.com</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div>	</body>
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