Synaptics Incorporated (SYNA)

Rahul Patel has been president and chief executive since June 2, 2025. He came from Qualcomm Technologies, where he had held senior leadership positions since May of 2015, and before that from Broadcom, where he held leadership positions from 2002 through May 2015, ending as the head of its wireless connectivity group. He arrived after the previous chief executive departed on February 3, 2025, a gap the board covered by making its chair, Nelson C. Chan, executive chair while it searched. 1234

Ken Rizvi had been chief financial officer since July 15, 2024, and filled in as interim chief executive from February 2025 until Patel arrived. He resigned as finance chief in August 2026 and stays in an advisory role through September 30, 2026. The company decided not to look for a successor while the merger is pending, so the chief executive now also serves as principal financial officer. The other officers named are Lisa Bodensteiner, chief legal officer since November 2023; Satish Ganesan, who joined in November 2019 as chief strategy officer and since January 2026 runs the edge interface and sensing division; and Vikram Gupta, who came from Infineon Technologies and since January 2026 runs the edge compute and connectivity division. 567891011

The board is long-serving. Nelson C. Chan has chaired it since October 2018 and has been a director since February 2007, and he stepped in as executive chair from February through December 2025 during the change of chief executive. Keith B. Geeslin has been a director since 1986, the year the company was incorporated in California. Seven of the eight nominees for the coming year are independent, everyone but the chief executive; Venkatesh Nathamuni, finance chief of Jacobs Solutions, joined the board and takes over as audit committee chair in October, and Jeffrey D. Buchanan is not standing for re-election. On the insider record this site holds, 37 people have filed for Synaptics, 14 of them in the last fifteen months. 412131415161718

At the end of fiscal 2026 Synaptics employed about 1,700 people across 15 countries: 21 percent in North America, 70 percent in Asia Pacific and 9 percent in Europe and the Middle East. Average tenure is about nine years. Research and development runs from the United States, with design and development teams in other countries working under the direction of the headquarters, and the filing names the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel and India among its engineering centers. The head office in San Jose, California, is leased, about 111,000 square feet of it. 192021222324