---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-027884"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SLAB"
cik: "0001038074"
company_name: "SILICON LABORATORIES INC."
filed_at: "2024-02-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T10:25:14.040464+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Silicon Labs appoints Dean Butler as CFO, effective May 15, 2024

## Summary
- Dean Butler joins from Synaptics (Senior VP & CFO since Oct 2019); replaces interim CFO Mark Mauldin.
- Compensation: $475,000 base salary, target bonus 100%, equity grants totaling $5M (PSUs, RSUs) and $1M cash sign-on.
- Butler previously held finance leadership at Marvell, Broadcom, and Maxim Integrated.
- Appointment effective May 15, 2024; Mauldin returns to CAO role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-027884
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SLAB
- cik: 0001038074
- company_name: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
- filed_at: 2024-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038074/000110465924027884/0001104659-24-027884-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038074/000110465924027884/tm247196d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Mauldin departed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at SILICON LABORATORIES INC..
  - Action: ceased serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: As of the Effective Date, Mark Mauldin will cease serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer and will continue to serve in his role as Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038074/000110465924027884/0001104659-24-027884-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dean Butler was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at SILICON LABORATORIES INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On February 27, 2024, Silicon Laboratories Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Dean Butler as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective May 15, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038074/000110465924027884/0001104659-24-027884-index.htm

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