---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-025123"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COHU"
cik: "0000021535"
company_name: "COHU INC"
filed_at: "2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T21:59:38.828795+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cohu appoints Andy Mattes to Board of Directors effective November 1, 2022

## Summary
- Appointed as Class 3 director, term expires at 2025 annual meeting; also serves on Compensation Committee.
- Annual retainer $60,000; initial RSU grant $78,075 (pro-rated from $150k) vesting over 3 years; eligible for $150k annual grant in May 2023.
- Mattes brings experience as former CEO of Coherent (led $6.6B acquisition by II-VI), ex-CEO Diebold Nixdorf, senior exec at HP and Siemens.
- Also serves on board of Velodyne Lidar (NASDAQ: VLDR).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-025123
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COHU
- cik: 0000021535
- company_name: COHU INC
- filed_at: 2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21535/000143774922025123/0001437749-22-025123-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21535/000143774922025123/cohu20221027_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-025123.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Andreas ("Andy") W. Mattes was appointed as Class 3 Director at COHU INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class 3 Director
  source text: On October 25, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cohu, Inc. (“Cohu”) appointed Andreas (“Andy”) W. Mattes to join the Board as a Class 3 director whose term will expire at Cohu’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21535/000143774922025123/0001437749-22-025123-index.htm

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