Rapid7 RPD

Mr. Mohamed succeeds Corey Thomas, who has been appointed Executive Chairman, effective as of June 1, 2026. Corey Thomas has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board since October 2012. He also served as Chairman of our Board from February 2019 until June 2026. He currently serves on the board of directors of LPL Financial Holdings Inc., a publicly traded financial services company, and as a member of its audit committee. Mr. Thomas also serves on the board of directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and as a member of its compensation, audit and health care quality and affordability committees. In February 2023, Mr. Thomas was appointed to the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Mr. Thomas received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Rafe Brown, age 57, has served as our Chief Financial Officer since December 2025. Prior to joining Rapid7, Mr. Brown served as an Operating Partner of Francisco Partners Operating Executives LLC, which provides operational support services to the funds managed by Francisco Partners, the technology investment firm, and their portfolio companies, from September 2024 to December 2025. Prior to Francisco Partners Operating Executives LLC, Mr. Brown served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Mimecast Limited, a global provider of next generation cloud security and risk management services for email and corporate information, from August 2022 to November 2023, and as its Chief Financial Officer from March 2019 to August 2022. Prior to Mimecast, Mr. Brown served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of SevOne, Inc., a provider of network and infrastructure management, from December 2015 until March 2019. Before joining SevOne, from September 2013 until November 2015, Mr. Brown was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of Pegasystems, Inc., a publicly traded global business process management software provider. Prior to Pegasystems, Mr. Brown spent nine years at salesforce.com, inc., serving most recently as a Senior Vice President of Finance. Mr. Brown began his public accounting career at Arthur Andersen LLP, followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He holds a Master of Accounting from Brigham Young University and a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Southern Utah University. He holds a certified public accounting (CPA) designation (inactive).

Kevin Galligan has served as a member of our Board since April 2025. Since 2011, Mr. Galligan has served as a Partner and Director of Research at JANA Partners Management, LP, a strategic investment firm specializing in enhancing stockholder value through active stockholder engagement. Previously, Mr. Galligan was a Principal from 2010 to 2011 and an Associate from 2007 to 2010 in the North American Private Equity group at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, an alternative investment management company. Prior to that, he worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory Division of the Blackstone Group, an alternative investment management company, from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Galligan was previously a member of the board of directors of New Relic (formerly NYSE: NEWR), a software analytics company, from 2022 until its sale to Francisco Partners and TPG in 2023. Mr. Galligan received a B.A. in economics from Columbia University.

On May 26, 2026, the Board of Directors of Rapid7, Inc. appointed Wael Mohamed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective as of June 1, 2026. Mr. Mohamed, 58 years old, has served as a member of the Company's Board since April 2025. Mr. Mohamed is the Founder, Managing General Partner and board member for Global Forward Capital Management PTE. LTD., a multi-stage investment firm founded in 2017. Mr. Mohamed formerly served as Operating Partner at Advent International, Chief Executive Officer at Forescout Technologies, Chairman of the Board for Cysiv, and President, Chief Operating Officer and board member for Trend Micro Group from 2015 to 2020, which is headquartered in Japan, publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and a member of the Nikkei 225. Mr. Mohamed holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Dalhousie University and an Executive Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School, and completed the Executive Program at Queen's Graduate School of Business and the MIT Sloan + CSAIL: Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marc Brown has served as a member of our Board since July 2016. Mr. Brown most recently served as Global Head of EQT AB's Growth Equity Fund, a position he held from October 2020 to January 2026. Previously, from January 2000 to October 2020, Mr. Brown was employed by Microsoft Corporation, where he most recently served as the Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development, Global Head of M&A and Strategic Investments. Mr. Brown also previously served as a director of Datto Holding Corp., a publicly traded software company offering IT solutions for managed service providers, and as a member of its audit and mergers and acquisitions committee. He received an A.B. from Colgate University, an M.B.A. from the New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Judy Bruner has served as a member of our Board since October 2016. Ms. Bruner most recently served as the Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer of SanDisk Corp, a supplier of flash storage products, from June 2004 until May 2016, when SanDisk was acquired by Western Digital. Ms. Bruner currently serves on the board of directors of Applied Materials, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor equipment manufacturer and as chair of its audit committee and a member of its nominating and governance committee. Ms. Bruner also serves on the board of directors of Qorvo, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer of radio frequency solutions, and as the chair of its audit committee and a member of its nominating and governance committee. Ms. Bruner previously served on the board of directors of Seagate Technology plc, a publicly traded provider of storage solutions, from January 2018 to October 2025, and as a member of its audit and finance committee and as chair of its nominating and governance committee. She also served on the board of directors of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., a publicly traded data and storage networking products company, from January 2009 to November 2017 and served as chair of its audit committee. She also previously served on the board of directors of Varian Medical Systems, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer of medical devices and software, from August 2016 to April 2021 and as chair of its audit committee and a member of its ethics and compliance committee. Ms. Bruner received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara.

J. Benjamin Nye has served as a member of our Board since August 2008 and as our lead independent director from February 2019 until June 2025. Mr. Nye is a partner at Venture Guides, an early stage investment firm. Mr. Nye is a Senior Advisor of the technology and infrastructure investing efforts for Bain Capital Venture Partners, LLC, which he joined in October 2004. From September 2013 until January 2022, Mr. Nye also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Turbonomic, Inc., a software company that provides virtualization management solutions for control cloud and virtualized environments, including through its acquisition by IBM Corporation. Mr. Nye received a B.A. in government from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Waits has served as the Company's Chief Experience Officer since September 2025. As Chief Experience Officer, Mr. Waits is responsible for strengthening customer outcomes and ensuring customer priorities are reflected across the Company's business, working closely with sales, marketing, product, engineering and executive leadership at the intersection of customer strategy, cybersecurity operations, technology and business performance. Prior to becoming Chief Experience Officer, Mr. Waits held senior leadership responsibilities at the Company spanning enterprise sales, business development, corporate development and strategic alliances. Before joining the Company, Mr. Waits held senior operating and executive roles across cybersecurity and enterprise technology companies, with a focus on go-to-market strategy, growth and business development, and has extensive experience and relationships across the cybersecurity industry. His experience includes leadership positions at Devo, ThreatTrack Security, CyberPoint Risk Analytics, Brabeion Software, Way2Market360, Archer Technologies, e-Security, BNX Systems, Banyan Systems, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC Software and Chevron Corporation. Mr. Waits attended Loyola University New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana.

Ms. Barrett is the owner of Barrett Cyber Solutions LLC. Ms. Barrett is a retired Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army and previously served as a Commanding General of the U.S. Army Cyber Command and Network Enterprise Technology Command from November 2018 to December 2025. Over the course of more than 35 years of service, Ms. Barrett has developed extensive experience leading and directing the delivery of global IT services, cybersecurity and enterprise network operations. Ms. Barrett's executive leadership experience includes managing a globally dispersed workforce of 16,000, serving 1.2 million customers, overseeing a nearly $2 billion annual budget and developing initiatives and systems to deliver sustained readiness across the U.S. Army's Cyber Forces. Ms. Barrett also has extensive experience advising senior executives on cyber warfare, cyber defense, artificial intelligence, and cyber threat intelligence. Ms. Barrett holds a Bachelors degree from Tufts University, and Masters degrees from Webster University and the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.

The board has nominated Mr. Kalowski for election at the 2026 Annual Meeting. Jeff Kalowski has served as a member of the Value Creation Group at Guidepost Growth Equity, a private equity firm focused on growth-stage technology companies, since October 2024, where he advises portfolio companies on strategic and operational finance matters. Previously, Mr. Kalowski served as our Chief Financial Officer from January 2017 to December 2021 and thereafter served in an advisory capacity to us from January 2022 through March 2022. Before joining our company, Mr. Kalowski served as Chief Financial Officer of Imprivata, Inc., an IT security company, from January 2007 to December 2016. Mr. Kalowski received a B.S. in business administration from Northeastern University.

On January 9, 2024, Rapid7, Inc. announced the appointment of Scott Murphy, as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, effective on March 4, 2024. Mr. Murphy most recently served as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. since February 2022. He joined Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. as Corporate Controller in May 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Murphy held various roles at Iron Mountain Inc., including Vice President, Americas Controller, from December 2019 through May 2021 and Vice President, Global Controller, from June 2018 through December 2019. He began his career in public accounting at Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Murphy received an MSA and BSBA in Accounting from Bryant University and is a Certified Public Accountant.