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accession: "0001628280-25-045052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRD"
cik: "0000912728"
company_name: "FORWARD AIR CORP"
filed_at: "2025-10-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:49:28.106059+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forward Air CIO resigns; Jason Ringgenberg named interim CIO

## Summary
- Joseph M. Tomasello resigned as CIO effective October 13, 2025.
- Jason Ringgenberg appointed interim CIO effective October 14, 2025.
- Ringgenberg previously served as CIO of Yellow Corp (2017-2023) and YRC Freight (2014-2017).
- Spent over twenty years at Accenture leading its Global Freight and Logistics Industry Program.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-045052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRD
- cik: 0000912728
- company_name: FORWARD AIR CORP
- filed_at: 2025-10-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912728/000162828025045052/0001628280-25-045052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912728/000162828025045052/fwrd-20251010.htm

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