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accession: "0001220754-25-000028"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001220754"
company_name: "ModivCare Inc"
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T16:39:11.802982+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ModivCare CFO and CIO to Depart May 31; CEO Becomes Principal Financial Officer

## Summary
- Barbara Gutierrez (CFO) and Jessica Kral (CIO) notified May 1 of termination effective May 31, 2025.
- Departures are not due to any dispute with management or the Board.
- CEO L. Heath Sampson will assume principal financial officer role upon Gutierrez's departure.
- Company will not replace CFO or CIO positions as part of organizational flattening and modernization.
- Press release issued May 5, 2025 detailing leadership transitions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001220754-25-000028
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001220754
- company_name: ModivCare Inc
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1220754/000122075425000028/0001220754-25-000028-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1220754/000122075425000028/prsc-20250501.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001220754-25-000028
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001220754-25-000028.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jessica Kral departed as Chief Information Officer at ModivCare Inc.
  - Action: notified that employment would be ending
  - Role: Chief Information Officer
  source text: On May 1, 2025, each of Barbara Gutierrez, Chief Financial Officer, and Jessica Kral, Chief Information Officer, was notified that her employment with ModivCare Inc. (the “Company”) would be ending effective May 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1220754/000122075425000028/0001220754-25-000028-index.htm
- Executive change
  L. Heath Sampson changed role as Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer at ModivCare Inc.
  - Action: will assume the role of principal financial officer
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer
  source text: Effective upon Ms. Gutierrez’s departure on May 31, 2025, L. Heath Sampson, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, will assume the role of the Company’s principal financial officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1220754/000122075425000028/0001220754-25-000028-index.htm
- Executive change
  Barbara Gutierrez departed as Chief Financial Officer at ModivCare Inc.
  - Action: notified that employment would be ending
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 1, 2025, each of Barbara Gutierrez, Chief Financial Officer, and Jessica Kral, Chief Information Officer, was notified that her employment with ModivCare Inc. (the “Company”) would be ending effective May 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1220754/000122075425000028/0001220754-25-000028-index.htm

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