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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001601046-22-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KEYS"
cik: "0001601046"
company_name: "Keysight Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T08:42:55.711903+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Keysight appoints Satish Dhanasekaran as CEO with $850K base salary and equity awards

## Summary
- Annual base salary of $850,000, effective May 1, 2022.
- Target award percentage increased to 125% of base salary under Performance-Based Compensation Plan.
- Grant of 5,341 performance stock units for 3-year period ending Oct 31, 2024; payout 0-200% of target.
- Award of 4,026 RSUs vesting in four equal annual installments starting first anniversary.
- Satish Dhanasekaran appointed President and CEO effective May 1, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001601046-22-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KEYS
- cik: 0001601046
- company_name: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601046/000160104622000043/0001601046-22-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601046/000160104622000043/keys-20220518.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001601046-22-000043
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001601046-22-000043.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Satish Dhanasekaran was appointed as President, Principal Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer at Keysight Technologies, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President, Principal Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On February 22, 2022, the Keysight Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Satish Dhanasekaran as the Company’s President, Principal Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the Company (“CEO”), effective May 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601046/000160104622000043/0001601046-22-000043-index.htm

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