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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-051053"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CVGI"
cik: "0001290900"
company_name: "Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T03:53:57.634824+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CVG elects Jeffrey S. Niew to Board as independent director, effective Dec 16, 2024

## Summary
- Jeffrey S. Niew (58) elected to CVG Board effective December 16, 2024, serving until 2025 annual meeting.
- Niew is President & CEO of Knowles Corporation (since 2013); led Knowles spin-off from Dover Corp in 2014.
- Board Chair Robert Griffin highlighted Niew's multi-unit operations experience as valuable to CVG.
- Niew will receive standard non-employee director compensation per CVG's 2024 proxy statement.
- He will stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-051053
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CVGI
- cik: 0001290900
- company_name: Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1290900/000162828024051053/0001628280-24-051053-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1290900/000162828024051053/cvgi-20241212.htm

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