---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-106259"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VECO"
cik: "0000103145"
company_name: "VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T09:46:18.344028+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veeco appoints Sujeet Chand to Board of Directors, effective Aug 16, 2021

## Summary
- Board increased from 8 to 9 directors; Chand appointed as Class I director until 2022 annual meeting.
- Chand is SVP & CTO of Rockwell Automation; holds Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from U. of Florida.
- Chand received restricted stock award valued at $140,000, vesting at earlier of 2022 annual meeting or one year.
- Appointment follows search process led by Governance Committee with outside firm to increase racial/ethnic diversity.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-106259
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VECO
- cik: 0000103145
- company_name: VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103145/000110465921106259/0001104659-21-106259-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103145/000110465921106259/tm2125178d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-106259.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sujeet Chand was appointed as Class I director at VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class I director
  source text: On August 13, 2021, Veeco’s Board of Directors voted to increase the size of the Board from eight to nine directors and to appoint Sujeet Chand as a Class I director, to hold office until the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103145/000110465921106259/0001104659-21-106259-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.