---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001040161-22-000014"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PXLW"
cik: "0001040161"
company_name: "PIXELWORKS, INC"
filed_at: "2022-02-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T06:52:16.134474+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pixelworks Chairman Richard Sanquini to retire; Daniel Heneghan to succeed as Chairman

## Summary
- Sanquini will retire as director and Chairman at the 2022 annual meeting; will become Chairman Emeritus.
- Board intends to nominate current independent director Daniel J. Heneghan as Chairman post-meeting.
- Heneghan, Audit Committee Chair, joined board in 2006; former Intersil VP and CFO.
- Sanquini's retirement is not related to any disagreement with company operations or policies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001040161-22-000014
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PXLW
- cik: 0001040161
- company_name: PIXELWORKS, INC
- filed_at: 2022-02-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- 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/1040161/000104016122000014/0001040161-22-000014-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040161/000104016122000014/pxlw-20220211.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001040161-22-000014
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001040161-22-000014.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001040161-22-000014.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard Sanquini retired as Chairman of the Board at PIXELWORKS, INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: On February 11, 2022, Richard Sanquini, a director and Chairman of the Board of Pixelworks, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company that he has decided to retire as a director of the Company and will not stand for re-election to the Company’s Board of Directors at the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040161/000104016122000014/0001040161-22-000014-index.htm

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