---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000056978-25-000074"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KLIC"
cik: "0000056978"
company_name: "KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:00:28.100023+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kulicke & Soffa EVP & GM Chan Pin Chong to retire Dec 1, 2025; successors named

## Summary
- Chan Pin Chong, EVP & GM of K&S Products & Solutions, retiring effective December 1, 2025 to focus on family.
- Ivy Qin (VP & GM Wire Bonding) and John Molnar (VP & GM Advanced Solutions) assume his duties, reporting to CEO Fusen Chen.
- Qin and Molnar each have over 20 years at K&S, transitioning from R&D roles to segment leadership.
- Leadership change is described as a planned retirement with no performance or financial impact noted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000056978-25-000074
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KLIC
- cik: 0000056978
- company_name: KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697825000074/0000056978-25-000074-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697825000074/klic-20251008.htm

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