Item 5.02 |
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Marvell Technology, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the appointment of Rajiv Ramaswami to the Board effective July 22, 2025.
Mr. Ramaswami, age 59, has served as a Director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nutanix, Inc., an enterprise Cloud computing company since December 2020. Mr. Ramaswami has more than 30 years of experience spanning software, cloud services, and network infrastructure. Prior to joining Nutanix, Mr. Ramaswami served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services at VMware,Inc., a virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions company, from October 2016 until December 2020. From April 2016 to October 2016, Mr. Ramaswami led VMware’s Networking and Security business as Executive Vice President and General Manager. Mr. Ramaswami served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, a semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions company, from February 2010 to January 2016. Prior to Broadcom, he served in multiple General Manager roles at Cisco, a global networking hardware and software technology company, across switching, data center, storage and optical networking business units. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs, and IBM. Mr. Ramaswami also served as a member of the board of directors of NeoPhotonics Corporation, a manufacturer of telecommunications circuits, from March 2014 to August 2022. Mr. Ramaswami is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds thirty-six patents, primarily in optical networking. Mr. Ramaswami has Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
The Board has determined that he is an “independent director” as defined under the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the listing requirements and rules of The NASDAQ Stock Market.
There are no family relationships between Mr. Ramaswami and any other director or executive officer of the Company. Nor are there any transactions between him or any member of his immediate families and the Company that would be reportable as a related party transaction under the rules of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Further, there is no arrangement or understanding between him and any other persons or entities pursuant to which he was appointed as a director of the Company.
He will participate in all director compensation and benefit programs in which the Company’s other non-employee directors participate, including an annual director retainer of $100,000 and an annual equity grant of restricted stock units valued at $250,000. In addition, upon joining the Board, he received a restricted stock unit award valued in an amount equal to a prorated portion of the annual equity grant, which prorated grant will vest on the date of the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders.
A copy of the press release announcing this appointment is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 9.01 |
Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
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99.1 |
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Press Release dated July 23, 2025 |
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Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |