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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000088941-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMTC"
cik: "0000088941"
company_name: "SEMTECH CORP"
filed_at: "2023-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T19:06:24.102263+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Semtech appoints Julie Garcia Ruehl to Board and Audit Committee

## Summary
- Appointment effective December 1, 2023; Ruehl brings CFO/CAO expertise across finance, consumer products, and semiconductor industries.
- Annual retainer of $55,000 for Board service and $10,000 for Audit Committee membership.
- Granted 3,122 Non-Deferred and 3,122 Deferred RSUs vesting by the 2024 annual meeting or one-year anniversary.
- Appointment follows March 2023 cooperation agreement with Lion Point; Board expands to 12 directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000088941-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMTC
- cik: 0000088941
- company_name: SEMTECH CORP
- filed_at: 2023-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88941/000008894123000025/0000088941-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88941/000008894123000025/smtc-20231201.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000088941-23-000025
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000088941-23-000025.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000088941-23-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julie Garcia Ruehl was appointed as Director at SEMTECH CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) has appointed Julie Garcia Ruehl as an independent member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88941/000008894123000025/0000088941-23-000025-index.htm

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