---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001065280-23-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NFLX"
cik: "0001065280"
company_name: "NETFLIX INC"
filed_at: "2023-01-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T17:27:42.287078+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Netflix appoints Jeffrey Karbowski as Chief Accounting Officer, effective Feb 13, 2023

## Summary
- Annual base salary of $2,000,000, signing bonus of $400,000, and $1,000,000 annual stock option allowance.
- Previously VP, Chief Accounting Officer at PayPal; also served at Skype and Ernst & Young.
- Eligible for severance of up to 36 months' compensation, reduced to 12 months minimum after tenure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001065280-23-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NFLX
- cik: 0001065280
- company_name: NETFLIX INC
- filed_at: 2023-01-09T23:59:59+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/1065280/000106528023000033/0001065280-23-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528023000033/nflx-20230106.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-23-000033
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-23-000033.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-23-000033.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Karbowski was appointed as VP, Chief Accounting Officer at NETFLIX INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: VP, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 6, 2023, Netflix, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Jeffrey Karbowski, age 45, as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer, effective February 13, 2023, where he will assume the role of VP, Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528023000033/0001065280-23-000033-index.htm

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