SYNA - Leadership updates

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics® Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) ("Company") today announced that on December 29, 2025, its Board of Directors ("Board") appointed Venkatesh (Venk) Nathamuni to serve as a member of the Company's Board and as a member of its Audit Committee, with service commencing on January 1, 2026. Mr. Nathamuni has more than 30 years of leadership experience with deep expertise in corporate finance, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, and public company governance. He has held senior executive positions at Cirrus Logic, Inc., Arista Networks, Inc., and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., and earlier in his career served as a semi

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics® Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) announced today that Rahul Patel has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of the company. Patel succeeds Synaptics CFO Ken Rizvi, who has served as the company's Interim CEO since February 2025. Rizvi will continue to serve as the company's CFO. With more than 30 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry, Patel has a proven track record of driving growth and product innovation, particularly in the areas of high-performance Edge-AI wireless connectivity solutions for handsets, tablets, PCs, wearables such as smartwatches and earbuds, IoT applications,

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics® Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) today announced Ken Rizvi will join the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective July 15, 2024. Ken will report to Synaptics President and CEO Michael Hurlston and serve on the company's leadership team. He will be responsible for all the aspects of the company's global finance function including accounting, corporate development and investor relations. "I am pleased to have Ken join Synaptics at this stage in our journey as we continue to drive towards becoming a leading provider of IoT connectivity and processor solutions. Ken is a seasoned finance leader with vast and

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics® Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) today announced the appointment of Lisa Bodensteiner as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, strengthening its leadership team. Ms. Bodensteiner joined in November to guide Synaptics' legal strategy, ensure regulatory compliance, and oversee corporate governance. "Lisa's track record and incredibly diverse experience as a legal executive for high-growth companies makes her an invaluable sounding board for me and the rest of the executive team," said Michael Hurlston, President and CEO of Synaptics. "I intend to work with her as a true business partner as we accelerate our pu

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) today announced the appointment of Vivie "YY" Lee to its Board of Directors, effective January 10, 2022. Ms. Lee has a distinguished career in executive leadership and Board of Director roles in the technology industry. She currently acts as an independent director and consultant to leading tech firms and is a member of the board of Commvault Systems, Inc. Previously, Ms. Lee served as Chief Strategy Officer at Anaplan, as well as Chief Executive Officer at FirstRain Inc. Earlier in her career, Ms. Lee held executive and product management leadership positions at Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and 8x8 (

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ:BLDP) (TSX:BLDP) today announced that, effective December 9, 2021, the company has appointed Ms. Kathleen (Kathy) Bayless to the company's Board of Directors. Ms. Bayless will also serve on the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Mr. Jim Roche, Chair of Ballard's Board of Directors said, "We are pleased to announce Ms. Kathleen Bayless as a new member to our Board. Kathleen brings impressive and complementary financial management experience with high growth, global organizations. Her experience and

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) today announced the appointment of Patricia Kummrow to its Board of Directors, effective July 27, 2021. Ms. Kummrow has had a distinguished career in senior management roles in the semiconductor industry. She is currently Vice President, Network and Edge Group, and General Manager, Ethernet Division, at Intel Corporation, and has served in senior engineering leadership roles at Intel, including Vice President, Platform Engineering Group. Earlier in her career, Ms. Kummrow served in engineering and engineering management roles at Hewlett-Packard. "Ms. Kummrow's senior management positions at Intel, he

Technology executive brings extensive industry and board experience to Airgain Airgain, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIRG), a leading provider of advanced wireless connectivity solutions and technologies used to enable high performance wireless networking across a broad range of devices and markets, including consumer, enterprise, and automotive, today announced the appointment of Kiva Allgood to the Airgain board of directors. Allgood most recently served as the Global Head of IoT and Automotive for Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), a global provider of communications technology. Prior, she served as Chief Commercial Development Officer, GE Business Innovations and as Managing Director, GE Ventures for GE Venture