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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950142-26-002479"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CAR"
cik: "0000723612"
company_name: "AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2026-09-01T20:17:09+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-09-01T20:18:08.468549+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avis Budget's Chief Digital & Innovation Officer Ravi Simhambhatla to depart Sept 30

## Summary
- Ravi Simhambhatla, EVP and Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, is leaving Avis Budget Group.
- He will remain in his current role until September 30, 2026, to ensure a smooth transition.
- Simhambhatla served the company for four years; no successor has been named.
- Departure announced September 1, 2026; no reason or cloud cited in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950142-26-002479
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CAR
- cik: 0000723612
- company_name: AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-09-01T20:17:09+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723612/000095014226002479/0000950142-26-002479-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723612/000095014226002479/eh260825547_8k.htm

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