---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001075531-23-000065"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T13:19:20.173837+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings appoints Ewout Steenbergen as CFO, effective March 15, 2024

## Summary
- Steenbergen to receive $825,000 base salary, target annual bonus of 180% of base.
- New hire RSUs of $9M (75% vest yr1, 25% yr2); annual RSUs $3.7M (3-yr vest); PSUs $3.7M (3-yr performance).
- Signing bonus of $1M, repayable if resignation w/o good reason or termination for cause within 12 months.
- Steenbergen was previously CFO of S&P Global and Voya Financial; he replaces departing CFO Goulden.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001075531-23-000065
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553123000065/0001075531-23-000065-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553123000065/bkng-20231213.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001075531-23-000065
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001075531-23-000065.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Goulden departed as Chief Financial Officer at Booking Holdings Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: As previously reported by the Company in its Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 23, 2023 (the "Prior 8-K"), upon commencement of employment by Mr. Steenbergen, Mr. Goulden will no longer serve as the Company's Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553123000065/0001075531-23-000065-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ewout L. Steenbergen was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Booking Holdings Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On December 13, 2023, Booking Holdings Inc. (the "Company") announced that it has appointed Ewout L. Steenbergen as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective as of March 15, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553123000065/0001075531-23-000065-index.htm

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