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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000796343-22-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADBE"
cik: "0000796343"
company_name: "ADOBE INC."
filed_at: "2022-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T19:41:18.887161+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Adobe appoints Walmart CFO Brett Biggs and Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann to board

## Summary
- Appointed Brett Biggs (EVP & CFO, Walmart) and Spencer Neumann (CFO, Netflix) to the board, effective Jan 7, 2022.
- Board size increased from 11 to 12 members after Jim Daley's retirement announced in November 2021.
- Both new directors appointed to the Audit Committee; each received an initial grant of 137 RSUs.
- No transactions involving either director exceeding $120,000 in the past fiscal year.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000796343-22-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADBE
- cik: 0000796343
- company_name: ADOBE INC.
- filed_at: 2022-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634322000011/0000796343-22-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634322000011/adbe-20220107.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000796343-22-000011
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000796343-22-000011.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000796343-22-000011.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Spencer Neumann was appointed as Director at ADOBE INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 7, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Adobe Inc. (“ Adobe ”) appointed Brett Biggs and Spencer Neumann to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634322000011/0000796343-22-000011-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brett Biggs was appointed as Director at ADOBE INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 7, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Adobe Inc. (“ Adobe ”) appointed Brett Biggs and Spencer Neumann to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634322000011/0000796343-22-000011-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.