---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000824142-22-000157"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAON"
cik: "0000824142"
company_name: "AAON, INC."
filed_at: "2022-07-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T14:35:19.573607+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AAON appoints Xerxes Gazder as CIO effective July 18, 2022; Rony Gadiwalla steps down

## Summary
- Xerxes Gazder elected Chief Information Officer effective July 18, 2022; nearly 30 years of IT leadership experience across multiple industries.
- Current VP/CIO Rony Gadiwalla stepping down to pursue other opportunities; will remain through August 12, 2022 to assist transition.
- Gazder holds B.S. in Mathematics from Jadavpur University and M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology.
- No employment agreement entered; Gazder eligible for standard executive compensation package.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000824142-22-000157
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAON
- cik: 0000824142
- company_name: AAON, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-07-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/824142/000082414222000157/0000824142-22-000157-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/824142/000082414222000157/aaon-20220715.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000824142-22-000157
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000824142-22-000157.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000824142-22-000157.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rony Gadiwalla departed as Chief Information Officer at AAON, INC..
  - Action: stepping down
  - Role: Chief Information Officer
  source text: current VP of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Rony Gadiwalla, would be stepping down to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/824142/000082414222000157/0000824142-22-000157-index.htm

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