Guidewire Software, Inc. announced a management transition in its finance and business development leadership. Guidewire announced that Richard Hart, its Chief Financial Officer, will transition to a new role of Chief Strategy Officer, on or about March 6, 2018. In this capacity, Mr. Hart will report to Marcus Ryu and will take a leadership role focusing on Guidewire's strategic growth initiatives.

Succeeding Mr. Hart will be Curtis Smith, who has been an active software finance professional for twenty years, the last seven as Chief Financial Officer for Keynote Systems, Inc. and Infusion Software, Inc., two cloud-based software companies, and, prior to that, as a finance and strategic advisor to the software industry. Mr. Smith will begin his employment on February 1st and assume the role of CFO on or about March 6, 2018.