Management Change/Compensation Form 8 K

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On September 12, 2024, the board of directors of Confluent, Inc. ("Confluent") appointed Kong Phan as Confluent's Chief Accounting Officer and designated him as Confluent's principal accounting officer, effective as of September 13, 2024 (the "Effective Date"). Mr. Phan assumes the designation of principal accounting officer from Rohan Sivaram, who continues to serve as Confluent's principal financial officer in his capacity as Chief Financial Officer.

Kong Phan, age 42, was appointed as Confluent's Chief Accounting Officer in September 2024. From April 2017 to September 2024, Mr. Phan served as Confluent's Corporate Controller. Before joining Confluent, Mr. Phan held various accounting roles at Polyvore Inc., a social commerce site (acquired by Yahoo! Inc.), Electronic Arts, a video game company, Gap Inc., a clothing retail company, and Ernst and Young, LLP, an audit and advisory firm. Mr. Phan holds a B.S. from Sonoma State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in California.

Confluent entered into a promotion letter agreement (the "Promotion Letter") with Mr. Phan dated September 12, 2024 in connection with his appointment as Chief Accounting Officer, which provides for, among other things, (i) an annual base salary of $350,000, (ii) an annual target bonus equal to 50% of Mr. Phan's base salary, prorated from the Effective Date, under the terms and conditions of Confluent's Corporate Bonus Plan for Employees, and (iii) a grant of restricted stock units (the "RSUs") valued at $1,340,000 under Confluent's 2021 Equity Incentive Plan. The shares underlying the RSUs will vest in eight equal quarterly installments beginning on December 20, 2024, in each case subject to continuous service through each applicable vesting date. Mr. Phan will enter into Confluent's standard form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which has been filed as Exhibit 10.9 to Confluent's Registration Statement on Form S-1,filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 2021.

Other than the Promotion Letter, there is no arrangement or understanding with any person pursuant to which Mr. Phan was appointed as Confluent's Chief Accounting Officer, and there are no family relationships between Mr. Phan and any director or executive officer of Confluent. Additionally, there are no transactions between Mr. Phan and Confluent that would be required to be reported under Item 404 of Regulation S-K.