---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000351998-25-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAIO"
cik: "0000351998"
company_name: "DATA I/O CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T21:37:02.017981+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Data I/O CFO Gerald Ng announces planned retirement in Q2 2025; successor search begun

## Summary
- Gerald Ng, VP and CFO, will retire in Q2 2025, timing subject to completion of pre-determined activities.
- Company has initiated a search for a new CFO replacement.
- Ng signed the 8-K filing; no effective date or retirement severance disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000351998-25-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAIO
- cik: 0000351998
- company_name: DATA I/O CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/351998/000035199825000010/0000351998-25-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/351998/000035199825000010/f8k-2025gerryngdeparture_fin.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000351998-25-000010
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000351998-25-000010.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000351998-25-000010.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gerald Ng departed as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at DATA I/O CORP.
  - Action: announced retirement
  - Role: Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Retirement of Gerald Ng: Gerald Ng, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Data I/O Corporation (the “Company”), announced his planned retirement and upcoming transition, which is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/351998/000035199825000010/0000351998-25-000010-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.