8-K

EPIZYME, INC.

Date: January 17, 2019

/s/ Robert B. Bazemore

Robert B. Bazemore

President and Chief Executive Officer

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):

January 17, 2019

EPIZYME, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)


Delaware	001-35945	26-1349956
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

400 Technology Square,

Cambridge, Massachusetts

02139

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 229-5872

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 5.02

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

Epizyme, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that, effective January 31, 2019, Suzanne Fleming, the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, will be leaving the Company to pursue other business opportunities. Matt Ros, the Company’s Chief Strategy & Business Officer, will serve as the Company’s principal financial officer effective on Ms. Fleming’s departure.

Joseph Beaulieu, the Company’s Controller, will assume the role of principal accounting officer of the Company effective on Ms. Fleming’s departure. Mr. Beaulieu, 38, has served as the Company’s Controller since July 2018. Prior to joining the Company, from July 2010 to July 2018, Mr. Beaulieu served as Manager and most recently Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Beaulieu received a Bachelor of Science degree with dual concentrations in accounting and management information systems from Boston College’s Wallace E. Carrol School of Management.

Also in connection with Mr. Beaulieu’s assumption of the role of principal accounting officer of the Company, Mr. Beaulieu will enter into the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which was filed as Exhibit 10.16 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333- 187982) filed with the SEC on April 26, 2013 and is incorporated herein by reference. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement, the Company may be required, among other things, to indemnify Mr. Beaulieu for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by him in any action or proceeding arising out of his service as principal accounting officer.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.