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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-229167"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYNA"
cik: "0000817720"
company_name: "SYNAPTICS Inc"
filed_at: "2021-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T01:16:36.575546+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Synaptics appoints Patricia Kummrow as independent director

## Summary
- Patricia Kummrow appointed independent Class 2 director effective July 27, 2021, term through 2022 annual meeting.
- Kummrow is VP at Intel, Network and Edge Group, and GM Ethernet Division, since March 2017.
- Compensation: annual equity grant of $200K in RSUs vesting quarterly over one year, plus $60K cash retainer.
- No transactions with company exceeding $120K in last fiscal year involving Kummrow.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-229167
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYNA
- cik: 0000817720
- company_name: SYNAPTICS Inc
- filed_at: 2021-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000119312521229167/0001193125-21-229167-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000119312521229167/d210024d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-229167.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Patricia Kummrow was appointed as independent Class 2 director at SYNAPTICS Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: independent Class 2 director
  source text: Effective July 27, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Synaptics Incorporated (the “Company”) appointed Patricia Kummrow as an independent Class 2 director of the Company with a term expiring at the annual meeting of our stockholders to be held in 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000119312521229167/0001193125-21-229167-index.htm

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