secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FORD MOTOR CO (F)
CIK:        0000037996
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000037996-25-000074
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ford appoints Kyle Crockett as Chief Accounting Officer; annual meeting votes ratified
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- Crockett, former Carrier VP/Controller/CAO, becomes Ford CAO effective after Q2 2025 10-Q filing.
- Compensation: $575k base salary, 75% bonus target, $600k stock award, $3.95M sign-on bonus (cash + RSUs).
- Crockett succeeds Mark Kosman, who moves to another finance role at Ford.
- Annual meeting: all 15 director nominees elected; say-on-pay and tax benefit plan approved; PwC ratified.
- Shareholder proposal on supply chain emissions and net zero goals rejected.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37996/000003799625000074/0000037996-25-000074-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37996/000003799625000074/f-20250507.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000037996-25-000074

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