---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-247377"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYNA"
cik: "0000817720"
company_name: "SYNAPTICS Inc"
filed_at: "2023-09-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T07:15:31.027625+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Synaptics CAO Kermit Nolan to retire Dec 31; CFO Dean Butler to become principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Kermit Nolan, Corporate VP & CAO, will retire effective December 31, 2023.
- CFO Dean Butler will assume principal accounting officer role upon Nolan's retirement.
- Esther Song, Corporate Controller, continues leading the accounting function.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-247377
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYNA
- cik: 0000817720
- company_name: SYNAPTICS Inc
- filed_at: 2023-09-29T23:59:59+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/817720/000119312523247377/0001193125-23-247377-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000119312523247377/d537093d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-247377
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-247377.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-247377.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dean Butler changed role as principal accounting officer at SYNAPTICS Inc.
  - Action: assume
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Dean Butler, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will assume the role of the principal accounting officer upon Mr. Nolan’s retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000119312523247377/0001193125-23-247377-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kermit Nolan departed as Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at SYNAPTICS Inc.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Kermit Nolan, the Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Synaptics Incorporated (the “Company”), informed the Company that he has decided to retire effective as of December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/817720/000119312523247377/0001193125-23-247377-index.htm

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