---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-020477"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ONTO"
cik: "0000704532"
company_name: "ONTO INNOVATION INC."
filed_at: "2022-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T12:49:26.122335+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Onto Innovation appoints Mark Slicer as CFO; Steven Roth retires after 26 years

## Summary
- Steven Roth retired as SVP & CFO effective May 17, 2022; will remain as advisor through year-end.
- Mark Slicer appointed CFO, previously SVP & Global Operations Controller at Boston Scientific.
- Slicer's compensation: $450K base salary, 70% bonus target, $1M one-time RSU grant, $150K signing bonus.
- Slicer is a licensed CPA with nearly 29 years of finance experience at Boston Scientific, GE, and PwC.
- Roth's retirement was previously announced in July 2021; Slicer's appointment concludes the search.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-020477
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ONTO
- cik: 0000704532
- company_name: ONTO INNOVATION INC.
- filed_at: 2022-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/704532/000156459022020477/0001564590-22-020477-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/704532/000156459022020477/onto-8k_20220517.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-020477.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Slicer was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at ONTO INNOVATION INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Board of Directors of the Company has appointed Mark Slicer as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer effective on May 17, 2022
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/704532/000156459022020477/0001564590-22-020477-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steven R. Roth retired as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at ONTO INNOVATION INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Steven R. Roth, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Onto Innovation Inc. (the “Company”), has retired from his position effective May 17, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/704532/000156459022020477/0001564590-22-020477-index.htm

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