---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000804328-25-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QCOM"
cik: "0000804328"
company_name: "QUALCOMM INC/DE"
filed_at: "2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T10:27:22.139893+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Qualcomm appoints Patricia Grech as CAO; Neil Martin moves to lead M&A

## Summary
- Neil Martin steps down as Chief Accounting Officer to become SVP Corporate Development (M&A lead), effective August 25, 2025.
- Patricia Grech appointed as SVP and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer), effective immediately.
- Grech's base salary set at $380,546; target bonus 35% of base beginning FY2026; RSU grant of $85,000.
- Grech has been with Qualcomm since 2006, most recently as VP Finance and Controller since December 2022.
- No arrangement or related-party transactions with Grech were reported.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000804328-25-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QCOM
- cik: 0000804328
- company_name: QUALCOMM INC/DE
- filed_at: 2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/804328/000080432825000049/0000804328-25-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/804328/000080432825000049/qcom-20250825.htm

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