---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-018332"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NUVR"
cik: "0000071557"
company_name: "Nuvera Communications, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T16:21:19.689492+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nuvera COO Barb Bornhoft retires after 35 years; leadership promoted

## Summary
- Barb Bornhoft, VP/COO/Secretary, retired May 22, 2025 after 35 years at Nuvera.
- Promoted Mary Korthour (VP Customer Experience), Kathy Lund (VP Technical Services), Polly Glaser (Sr. Dir HR).
- Shareholders elected Knuth, Olsem, Otis directors; ratified auditor Olsen Thielen; approved say-on-pay.
- Shareholders voted to hold advisory vote on exec compensation every three years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-018332
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NUVR
- cik: 0000071557
- company_name: Nuvera Communications, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71557/000143774925018332/0001437749-25-018332-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71557/000143774925018332/nuvr20250523_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-018332
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-018332.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Barbara A.J. Bornhoft departed as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary at Nuvera Communications, Inc..
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary
  source text: On May 22, 2025, Nuvera Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that its Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary Barbara A.J. Bornhoft is retiring from the Company at the time of the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 22, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71557/000143774925018332/0001437749-25-018332-index.htm

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