---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001065280-22-000217"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NFLX"
cik: "0001065280"
company_name: "NETFLIX INC"
filed_at: "2022-06-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T02:14:03.479028+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Netflix appoints Ken Barker as Principal Accounting Officer effective June 27, 2022

## Summary
- Ken Barker (55) named VP, Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer, reporting to CFO Spencer Neumann.
- Barker most recently served as SVP Finance at Electronic Arts (Aug 2021-Jun 2022); previously SVP, CAO at EA from June 2003.
- Annual base salary of $2.4M and $600K stock option allowance; eligible for severance under Executive Severance Plan.
- Barker holds a B.A. in Accounting from University of Notre Dame; no familial or transactional conflicts disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001065280-22-000217
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NFLX
- cik: 0001065280
- company_name: NETFLIX INC
- filed_at: 2022-06-13T23:59:59+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/1065280/000106528022000217/0001065280-22-000217-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000217/nflx-20220610.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-22-000217
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-22-000217.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-22-000217.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ken Barker was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at NETFLIX INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 10, 2022, Netflix, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ken Barker, age 55, as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer, effective June 27, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000217/0001065280-22-000217-index.htm

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