---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-014613"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TFIN"
cik: "0001539638"
company_name: "Triumph Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T05:43:34.847213+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Triumph Financial promotes Ritterbusch to head Banking & Payments; Fisk named Factoring president

## Summary
- Todd Ritterbusch promoted to president, payments and banking, leading both segments.
- Melissa Forman-Barenblit ceased as TriumphPay president, no longer an executive officer.
- Kim Fisk named president, factoring; Tim Valdez becomes chairman of factoring segment.
- David Vielehr named president of LoadPay, Triumph's digital banking platform for trucking.
- Changes effective March 19, 2025; announced March 25.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-014613
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TFIN
- cik: 0001539638
- company_name: Triumph Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828025014613/0001628280-25-014613-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828025014613/tfin-20250319.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-014613.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Melissa Forman-Barenblit departed as President of the Bank’s TriumphPay product line at Triumph Financial, Inc..
  - Action: ceased to serve
  - Role: President of the Bank’s TriumphPay product line
  source text: Melissa Forman-Barenblit, the President of the Bank’s TriumphPay product line, ceased to serve in such capacity, effective March 19, 2025, and is no longer an executive officer of the Company as such term is defined in Rule 3b-7 promulgated under the Exchange Act.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828025014613/0001628280-25-014613-index.htm
- Executive change
  Todd Ritterbusch changed role as Head of Banking and Payments Segments at Triumph Financial, Inc..
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Head of Banking and Payments Segments
  source text: The changes include the promotion of Todd Ritterbusch, the current President of TBK Bank, SSB, the Company’s wholly owned bank subsidiary, to the head of each of the Company’s Banking and Payments segments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539638/000162828025014613/0001628280-25-014613-index.htm

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