---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-008941"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWDI"
cik: "0000038264"
company_name: "Forward Industries, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:23:55.159776+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forward Industries appoints Ryan Navi as Chief Investment Officer

## Summary
- Ryan Navi appointed Chief Investment Officer effective December 1, 2025.
- Base salary of $400,000 per annum, plus annual bonus target of $200,000.
- Previously Managing Director at ParaFi Capital; prior roles at KKR and Citigroup.
- Navi, 35, holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University.
- Eligible for equity grants under the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-008941
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWDI
- cik: 0000038264
- company_name: Forward Industries, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-05T23:59:59+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/38264/000168316825008941/0001683168-25-008941-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825008941/forward_i8k.htm

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