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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-022209"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RFIL"
cik: "0000740664"
company_name: "R F INDUSTRIES LTD"
filed_at: "2022-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T11:30:25.044763+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RF Industries appoints Kay Tidwell and Jason Cohenour to board; Marvin Fink retires after 20+ years

## Summary
- Marvin Fink resigned from the Board on Sept 6, 2022, with no disagreement; he had served since 2001.
- Board expanded from 5 to 6 members; Kay Tidwell (Hudson Pacific GC) and Jason Cohenour (ex-Sierra Wireless CEO) joined.
- Tidwell and Cohenour each received 7,485 restricted stock units vesting in one year or at next annual meeting.
- At Sept 8 annual meeting, Sheryl Cefali and Robert Dawson re-elected as Class III directors; say-on-pay and auditor ratification approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-022209
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RFIL
- cik: 0000740664
- company_name: R F INDUSTRIES LTD
- filed_at: 2022-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740664/000143774922022209/0001437749-22-022209-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740664/000143774922022209/rfil20220912_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-022209.txt

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