---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000891103-25-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MTCH"
cik: "0000891103"
company_name: "Match Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T22:31:29.922879+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Match Group appoints Hesam Hosseini COO; President Gary Swidler to depart July 2025

## Summary
- Hesam Hosseini appointed COO effective April 1, 2025, while remaining CEO of Evergreen & Emerging Brands.
- Employment agreement provides $635K base salary, 150% target bonus, equity grants (RSUs $3.6M, PSUs $5.4M).
- President Gary Swidler steps down April 1, 2025, will serve as advisor until July 4, 2025.
- Swidler's resignation notice given Feb 28, 2025; third amendment to employment agreement executed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000891103-25-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MTCH
- cik: 0000891103
- company_name: Match Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000030/0000891103-25-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000030/mtch-20250228.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000891103-25-000030
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000891103-25-000030.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000891103-25-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gary Swidler resigned as President at Match Group, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: President
  source text: On February 28, 2025, Gary Swidler, the Company’s President, gave notice to the Company of his intention to terminate his employment with the Company effective as of July 4, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000030/0000891103-25-000030-index.htm
- Executive change
  Hesam Hosseini was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Match Group, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On February 28, 2025, Hesam Hosseini was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Match Group, Inc. (the “Company”), effective April 1, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000030/0000891103-25-000030-index.htm

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