---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000817720-25-000046"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYNA"
cik: "0000817720"
company_name: "SYNAPTICS Inc"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T23:18:51.613142+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Synaptics appoints Rahul Patel as President and CEO, effective June 2, 2025

## Summary
- Patel previously SVP/Group GM at Qualcomm's Connectivity, Broadband & Networking Group; 13 years at Broadcom.
- Interim CEO Ken Rizvi returns to CFO role; Patel also joins Board of Directors.
- Compensation: $800k base salary, 125% bonus target, $1.85M sign-on cash bonus subject to clawback.
- Equity awards valued at $15M ($10M + $5M make-whole RSUs) with multi-year vesting schedules.
- Severance provides 1.5x salary (without cause/good reason) or 2x salary plus 200% bonus on change-in-control.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000817720-25-000046
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYNA
- cik: 0000817720
- company_name: SYNAPTICS Inc
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000081772025000046/0000817720-25-000046-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000081772025000046/syna-20250519.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000817720-25-000046
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000817720-25-000046.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000817720-25-000046.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rahul Patel was appointed as member of the Board at SYNAPTICS Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: member of the Board
  source text: appointed Rahul Patel as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and as a member of the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000081772025000046/0000817720-25-000046-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rahul Patel was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at SYNAPTICS Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: appointed Rahul Patel as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and as a member of the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000081772025000046/0000817720-25-000046-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ken Rizvi changed role as Chief Financial Officer at SYNAPTICS Inc.
  - Action: returns to
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Mr. Patel succeeds the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Ken Rizvi, who has served as the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer since February 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000081772025000046/0000817720-25-000046-index.htm

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