---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-120760"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VECO"
cik: "0000103145"
company_name: "VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC"
filed_at: "2022-11-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T14:44:53.041468+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veeco appoints Dr. Lena Nicolaides to board, expanding to 10 directors

## Summary
- Appointment effective Nov 21, 2022; board increases from 9 to 10 members.
- Dr. Nicolaides is SVP and GM at KLA Corporation's pattern inspection division.
- She receives $140,000 in restricted stock vesting before 2023 annual meeting or 1 year.
- Appointment part of governance committee search for increased gender diversity.
- She serves as Class II director until 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-120760
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VECO
- cik: 0000103145
- company_name: VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC
- filed_at: 2022-11-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103145/000110465922120760/0001104659-22-120760-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103145/000110465922120760/tm2230958d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-120760
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-120760.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-120760.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lena Nicolaides was appointed as Class II Director at VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: Effective as of November 21, 2022, Veeco’s Board of Directors voted to increase the size of the Board from nine to ten directors and to appoint Lena Nicolaides, Ph.D., as a Class II director, to hold office until the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103145/000110465922120760/0001104659-22-120760-index.htm

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