---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-345428"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SNPS"
cik: "0000883241"
company_name: "SYNOPSYS INC"
filed_at: "2021-12-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T04:42:12.052928+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Synopsys CFO Trac Pham plans to retire in 2022; search for successor initiated

## Summary
- Trac Pham, CFO since 2014, intends to retire in 2022; will remain until successor is appointed.
- Pham has 15 years at Synopsys; credited with driving margin and EPS growth as CFO.
- Synopsys will conduct a comprehensive external search for a new CFO.
- No specific retirement date set; transition expected to be orderly.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-345428
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SNPS
- cik: 0000883241
- company_name: SYNOPSYS INC
- filed_at: 2021-12-01T23:59:59+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/883241/000119312521345428/0001193125-21-345428-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883241/000119312521345428/d122984d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-345428
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-345428.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-345428.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Trac Pham departed as Chief Financial Officer at SYNOPSYS INC.
  - Action: intends to retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On November 28, 2021, Trac Pham notified Synopsys, Inc. (“ Synopsys ”) that he intends to retire as Chief Financial Officer of Synopsys in 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883241/000119312521345428/0001193125-21-345428-index.htm

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