---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001075531-23-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2023-02-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T01:25:39.566249+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings CFO David Goulden to step down; successor search expected by March 2024

## Summary
- David I. Goulden will transition from CFO role once successor is hired, expected by March 2024.
- Goulden remains employee until March 4, 2024, then may serve as consultant or other role until March 4, 2026.
- Base salary of $630,000 continues; eligible for 2023 bonus but no bonus after 2023.
- Outstanding equity awards continue to vest; PSU/RSU grants from March 2023 vest over extended schedule.
- New forms of PSU and RSU agreements approved for executive officers under 1999 Omnibus Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001075531-23-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-02-23T23:59:59+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/1075531/000107553123000013/0001075531-23-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553123000013/bkng-20230223.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001075531-23-000013.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David I. Goulden changed role as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Booking Holdings Inc..
  - Action: transitioning to a different role
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On February 23, 2023, the Company announced that David I. Goulden, the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be transitioning to a different role pending the expected hiring of his successor by March 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553123000013/0001075531-23-000013-index.htm

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