---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000708781-23-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CASS"
cik: "0000708781"
company_name: "CASS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T05:41:47.453752+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cass Information Systems appoints Martin Resch as CEO effective April 18, 2023

## Summary
- Martin Resch appointed President and CEO, effective April 18, 2023; succeeds Eric Brunngraber (CEO since 2008).
- Eric Brunngraber to retire as CEO but remain as Executive Chairman and Chairman of Board.
- Resch's new base salary set at $650,000, target bonus 45% of base, LTIC target 125% of base.
- Brunngraber's compensation: base $562,000, target bonus 40% of base, LTIC target 100% of base.
- Resch, 57, joined Cass in Nov 2020 as EVP/COO, named President in Jan 2022; previously at Bank of the West.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000708781-23-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CASS
- cik: 0000708781
- company_name: CASS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708781/000070878123000008/0000708781-23-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708781/000070878123000008/cass-20230216.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000708781-23-000008
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000708781-23-000008.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000708781-23-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Martin Resch was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at CASS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cass Information Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Martin Resch to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective April 18, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708781/000070878123000008/0000708781-23-000008-index.htm
- Executive change
  Eric Brunngraber changed role as Executive Chairman at CASS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: retired as Chief Executive Officer
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Mr. Brunngraber will retire as Chief Executive Officer, effective as of April 18, 2023, and will remain with the Company as Executive Chairman
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708781/000070878123000008/0000708781-23-000008-index.htm

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