---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-024622"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMBA"
cik: "0001280263"
company_name: "AMBARELLA INC"
filed_at: "2022-02-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T12:50:00.067425+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ambarella appoints Anne De Greef-Safft as independent director effective Feb 1, 2022

## Summary
- Appointed to board and Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee effective Feb 1, 2022.
- De Greef-Safft, 59, previously Group President at Standex and held leadership roles at Danaher.
- Received initial RSU award valued at $150,000 vesting quarterly on Mar 15, Jun 15, Sep 15, 2022.
- Board determined she is independent under SEC and NASDAQ rules; standard director compensation applies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-024622
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMBA
- cik: 0001280263
- company_name: AMBARELLA INC
- filed_at: 2022-02-01T23:59:59+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/1280263/000119312522024622/0001193125-22-024622-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280263/000119312522024622/d304675d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-024622
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-024622.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-024622.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Anne De Greef-Safft was appointed as Director at AMBARELLA INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 27, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ambarella, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Anne De Greef-Safft as an independent director to the Board and a member of the Board’s Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, in each case effective as of February 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280263/000119312522024622/0001193125-22-024622-index.htm

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