---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-293900"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMAT"
cik: "0000006951"
company_name: "APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE"
filed_at: "2023-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T13:45:41.183367+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Materials accounting officer departs, by-laws amended to allow lower shareholder meeting threshold

## Summary
- Jeff Bodner, principal accounting officer, departed December 11, 2023; departure not due to any disagreement with company.
- Charles Read, Corporate VP and Business Units CFO, appointed interim principal accounting officer effective immediately.
- Board amended by-laws to lower special meeting threshold from 20% to 10% and reflect recent Delaware law amendments.
- By-laws also include technical, clarifying, conforming, and ministerial changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-293900
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMAT
- cik: 0000006951
- company_name: APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE
- filed_at: 2023-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312523293900/0001193125-23-293900-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312523293900/d601728d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-293900.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Charles Read was appointed as interim principal accounting officer at APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim principal accounting officer
  source text: Charles Read will serve as the Company’s interim principal accounting officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312523293900/0001193125-23-293900-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jeff Bodner departed as principal accounting officer at APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: On December 11, 2023, Jeff Bodner, the principal accounting officer of Applied Materials, Inc. (the “Company” or “Applied”), departed the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312523293900/0001193125-23-293900-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE: Lowered ownership threshold for calling special meetings from 20% to 10%, reflected Delaware law amendments, and made ministerial changes (effective 2023-12-08).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-08
  source text: On December 8, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company amended its Amended and Restated Bylaws, effective immediately, to: lower the ownership threshold required for stockholders to call a special meeting from 20% to 10%; reflect recent Delaware law amendments, including but not limited to communications regarding adjourned stockholder meetings, proxy requirements, and requirements for action by written consent of the Board; and make technical edits and clarifying, conforming and ministerial changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312523293900/0001193125-23-293900-index.htm

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