---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000833640-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POWI"
cik: "0000833640"
company_name: "POWER INTEGRATIONS INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T01:15:15.460388+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Power Integrations CEO Balu Balakrishnan to retire; search for successor underway

## Summary
- Balu Balakrishnan, CEO since 2002, notified company on Feb 3, 2025 of retirement; will stay until successor named.
- Board retained executive search firm; internal and external candidates will be considered.
- Balakrishnan to serve as executive chairman during transition and remain on board.
- Balakrishnan, 70, joined Power Integrations in 1989; holds over 200 U.S. patents.
- Retirement not result of any dispute or disagreement with company or board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000833640-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POWI
- cik: 0000833640
- company_name: POWER INTEGRATIONS INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833640/000083364025000041/0000833640-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833640/000083364025000041/powi-20250203x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833640-25-000041
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833640-25-000041.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833640-25-000041.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: e1947f5215
  claim: Balu Balakrishnan departed as president and chief executive officer at POWER INTEGRATIONS INC.
  evidence_excerpt: On February 3, 2025, Balu Balakrishnan notified the Company that he intends to retire from his position as president and chief executive officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833640/000083364025000041/0000833640-25-000041-index.htm

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