---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001587987-25-000062"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEWT"
cik: "0001587987"
company_name: "NewtekOne, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T00:47:57.243811+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Salvatore Mulia retires from NewtekOne board after 21 years; board reduced to 7 directors

## Summary
- Salvatore Mulia retired as NewtekOne Board member effective April 1, 2025, after serving since 2004.
- Board size reduced from eight to seven directors following Mulia's retirement.
- Fernando Perez-Hickman appointed to replace Mulia on the Audit Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001587987-25-000062
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEWT
- cik: 0001587987
- company_name: NewtekOne, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587987/000158798725000062/0001587987-25-000062-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587987/000158798725000062/newt-20250401.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001587987-25-000062
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001587987-25-000062.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001587987-25-000062.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Salvatore Mulia retired as Board member at NewtekOne, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Board member
  source text: Effective as of April 1, 2025, Salvatore Mulia, a member of the NewtekOne, Inc. Board of Directors (the “Board”) since 2004, retired as a member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587987/000158798725000062/0001587987-25-000062-index.htm

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