---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-001626"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BAER"
cik: "0001941536"
company_name: "Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T16:47:54.162305+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bridger Aerospace names Sam Davis permanent CEO; salary raised to $425k

## Summary
- Sam Davis, 41, appointed President and CEO effective March 17, 2025; previously interim CEO since July 2024.
- Annual base salary increased from $300,000 to $425,000 in connection with the appointment.
- Board cited strong top-line growth, increased Adjusted EBITDA, and positive cash flow under Davis's interim leadership (no specific figures provided).
- Investor presentation for March 2025 furnished as Exhibit 99.2; no financial details excerpted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-001626
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BAER
- cik: 0001941536
- company_name: Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1941536/000168316825001626/0001683168-25-001626-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1941536/000168316825001626/bridger_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-001626
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-001626.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-001626.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sam Davis was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 17, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors determined to make Mr. Sam Davis the Company’s permanent Chief Executive Officer, and approved a change in Mr. Davis’s title to President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1941536/000168316825001626/0001683168-25-001626-index.htm

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