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accession: "0001124610-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001124610"
company_name: "VMWARE LLC"
filed_at: "2023-05-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T14:07:37.964582+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# VMware appoints board member Karen Dykstra as CFO; Zane Rowe to depart June 9

## Summary
- Karen Dykstra, age 64, VMware board member since 2016, becomes CFO effective June 9, 2023.
- Dykstra receives monthly salary of $667,000 and one-time signing bonus of $800,000.
- Outgoing CFO Zane Rowe resigns effective June 9; Dykstra will not participate in executive bonus or severance plans.
- Dykstra continues as board member; stepped down as Audit and Governance Committee chair.
- Company notes pending $61B acquisition by Broadcom, expected in Broadcom FY2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001124610-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001124610
- company_name: VMWARE LLC
- filed_at: 2023-05-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000025/0001124610-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000025/vmw-20230523.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001124610-23-000025
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001124610-23-000025.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001124610-23-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Zane Rowe resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at VMWARE LLC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
  source text: On May 23, 2023, Zane Rowe resigned from his position as VMware’s CFO and Executive Vice President, effective June 9, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000025/0001124610-23-000025-index.htm
- Executive change
  Karen E. Dykstra was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at VMWARE LLC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 25, 2023, VMware, Inc. (“VMware” or the “Company”) announced in a press release the appointment of Karen E. Dykstra, age 64, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), effective as of June 9, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124610/000112461023000025/0001124610-23-000025-index.htm

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