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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-053557"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMAT"
cik: "0000006951"
company_name: "APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE"
filed_at: "2024-02-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T07:32:00.669886+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Materials appoints Adam Sanders as Chief Accounting Officer effective March 4, 2024

## Summary
- Sanders, 52, previously Semiconductor Segment Group CFO, succeeds Charles Read who served as interim principal accounting officer since December 2023.
- New annual base salary of $340,000; target bonus for FY2024 of 50% of base salary.
- Long-term incentive award of restricted stock units valued at $400,000, vesting 25% on April 1, 2025 and 6.25% quarterly thereafter.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-053557
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMAT
- cik: 0000006951
- company_name: APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE
- filed_at: 2024-02-29T23:59:59+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/6951/000119312524053557/0001193125-24-053557-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524053557/d800019d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-053557.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Adam Sanders was appointed as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 27, 2024, Applied Materials, Inc. (“Applied” or the “Company”) appointed Adam Sanders as the Company’s Appointed Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (“Chief Accounting Officer”), effective March 4, 2024 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524053557/0001193125-24-053557-index.htm

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