Balaji Sekar to Step Down to Pursue Role at Private Company
Trent Thrash, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, Appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer
Garrett Gold, Vice President of Accounting and Financial Reporting, Appointed Principal Accounting Officer
Feb. 25, 2026– TaskUs, Inc. (Nasdaq: TASK) (“TaskUs” or the “Company”), a leading provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Balaji Sekar has informed the Company of his intention to step down to pursue a role at a private company. He will remain with TaskUs through March 31, 2026, and serve as an advisor for an additional six months to support a smooth transition.
Effective as of March 31, 2026, Trent Thrash, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, will assume the role of Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Garrett Gold, Vice President of Accounting and Financial Reporting, will assume the role of Principal Accounting Officer. TaskUs has initiated a comprehensive search process for a permanent Chief Financial Officer.
“On behalf of the management team and Board, I want to thank Balaji for his meaningful contributions to TaskUs over nearly a decade. He was instrumental in building our finance and accounting teams to be public company ready as we scaled and then completed a successful IPO. We wish him well as he takes this next step in his career,” said Bryce Maddock, CEO of TaskUs. “We are fortunate to have a deep executive bench at TaskUs. Trent and Garrett are trusted leaders at the Company, and their knowledge of our business and decades of combined experience will help us continue to execute on our financial goals as we search for our next CFO.”
Mr. Thrash joined TaskUs in 2021 and has more than 25 years of corporate development, accounting, and finance experience, predominantly within the BPO and software industries. He is a Certified Public Accountant and began his career as an auditor at PwC. Mr. Gold joined TaskUs in 2021 and has more than 12 years of public company accounting and SEC reporting experience across a range of industries. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.
“Serving as TaskUs’ CFO and working alongside Bryce, Jaspar, Blackstone, our Board of Directors and our talented employees during such an important chapter in the Company’s journey has been an honor,” said Mr. Sekar. “I am confident in management’s ability to continue transforming the business for the AI era, and I look forward to seeing all that TaskUs can accomplish in the years ahead.”
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