---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001589526-21-000090"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLBD"
cik: "0001589526"
company_name: "Blue Bird Corp"
filed_at: "2021-09-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T05:50:00.042880+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Bird appoints Razvan Radulescu as CFO effective Oct 1, 2021

## Summary
- Razvan Radulescu, former Daimler Trucks executive, named permanent CFO replacing interim CFO Phil Tighe.
- Radulescu to receive $450,000 base salary, target annual cash bonus of 75% of base, and $100,000 sign-on bonus.
- Phil Tighe to remain as Senior Advisor through Dec 31, 2021, then terminate employment.
- Radulescu has over 20 years at Daimler in finance, controlling, and procurement, most recently GM of Procurement at Daimler Trucks NA.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001589526-21-000090
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLBD
- cik: 0001589526
- company_name: Blue Bird Corp
- filed_at: 2021-09-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952621000090/0001589526-21-000090-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952621000090/blbd-20210830.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001589526-21-000090
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001589526-21-000090.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001589526-21-000090.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Phillip Tighe resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Blue Bird Corp.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: As a result of the foregoing appointment, the recently appointed interim Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), Phillip Tighe, will resign from the office of CFO on October 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952621000090/0001589526-21-000090-index.htm
- Executive change
  Razvan Radulescu was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Blue Bird Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 30, 2021, the Board of Directors ("Board") of Blue Bird Corporation (the "Company"), following an executive search and interviews, approved the appointment of Razvan Radulescu as the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of the Company, including as the principal financial and principal accounting officer, to be effective on October 1, 2021, as more fully described in Item 5.02(c) below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589526/000158952621000090/0001589526-21-000090-index.htm

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