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accession: "0001124610-23-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001124610"
company_name: "VMWARE LLC"
filed_at: "2023-04-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T04:55:38.343947+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# VMware amends Bylaws to allow Board or CEO to designate meeting chairperson

## Summary
- Board approved amendment to Bylaws Sections 2.6 and 3.14 on April 4, 2023.
- Amendment permits Board or CEO to designate a person (not necessarily Chairman or CEO) to call stockholder meetings to order and act as chair.
- Amended and Restated Bylaws effective April 4, 2023; filed as Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001124610-23-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001124610
- company_name: VMWARE LLC
- filed_at: 2023-04-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000020/0001124610-23-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000020/vmw-20230404.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001124610-23-000020.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  VMWARE LLC: Amended Sections 2.6 and 3.14 of the Bylaws to allow the Board or CEO to designate a person other than the Chairman or CEO to call a meeting of stockholders to order and act as chairperson (effective 2023-04-04).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-04-04
  source text: On April 4, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of VMware, Inc. (the "Company") approved an amendment to the Company's Bylaws. In summary, Sections 2.6 and 3.14 of the Bylaws have been amended to enable the Board or the Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”) to designate a person who is not the Chairman of the Board or the CEO to call a meeting of stockholders to order and to act as chairperson of that meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000020/0001124610-23-000020-index.htm

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