---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-080155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMBA"
cik: "0001280263"
company_name: "AMBARELLA INC"
filed_at: "2022-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T21:17:16.225386+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ambarella CFO Casey Eichler passes away; John Young named interim CFO

## Summary
- CFO Casey Eichler passed away on March 19, 2022 after a long illness; he had been on leave since Nov 9, 2021.
- VP Finance John Young continues as interim principal financial and accounting officer while board searches for successor.
- Company expects to announce a permanent CFO successor soon; press release issued March 21, 2022.
- Eichler joined Ambarella as CFO in 2018 and led financial operations through the transition to an AI/computer vision company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-080155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMBA
- cik: 0001280263
- company_name: AMBARELLA INC
- filed_at: 2022-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280263/000119312522080155/0001193125-22-080155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280263/000119312522080155/d338336d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-080155.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Casey Eichler departed as Chief Financial Officer at AMBARELLA INC.
  - Action: passed away
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 19, 2022, Casey Eichler, the Chief Financial Officer of Ambarella, Inc. (the “Company”) passed away.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280263/000119312522080155/0001193125-22-080155-index.htm
- Executive change
  John Young was appointed as Interim Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer at AMBARELLA INC.
  - Action: will continue to serve as interim
  - Role: Interim Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: John Young, the Company’s Vice President, Finance, will continue to serve as interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer while the Company’s Board of Directors completes its search for a successor.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280263/000119312522080155/0001193125-22-080155-index.htm

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