QUALCOMM Incorporated filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update
$QCOM
Radio And Television Broadcasting And Communications Equipment
Technology
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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(d) On September 2, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of QUALCOMM Incorporated (the “Company”) elected Dr. Jeremy (Zico) Kolter, Professor and Department Head of the Machine Learning Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, to the Board. Dr. Kolter was elected for a term of office that expires at the Company’s next annual meeting of stockholders. The Board also appointed Dr. Kolter to its Governance Committee. There is no arrangement or understanding between Dr. Kolter and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director, and there are no transactions involving the Company and Dr. Kolter that are required to be reported pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. Dr. Kolter will receive compensation for his service as a non-employee director of the Company under the Qualcomm Incorporated 2025 Director Compensation Plan (the “Director Compensation Plan”). The components of the Director Compensation Plan are described in Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended September 29, 2024. Under the Director Compensation Plan, on September 2, 2025, Dr. Kolter was granted 1,049 deferred stock units (DSUs), representing a pro rata portion of the value of a DSU award for a full year of service on the Board.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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| Date: | September 2, 2025 | By: | /s/ Ann Chaplin | ||||||||||||||
| Ann Chaplin | |||||||||||||||||
| General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | |||||||||||||||||