---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000898822-25-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MTCH"
cik: "0000891103"
company_name: "Match Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:49:09.971064+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Match Group names Spencer Rascoff CEO; Bernard Kim departs by mutual agreement

## Summary
- Spencer Rascoff appointed CEO effective Feb 4, 2025; Bernard Kim resigned as CEO and director by mutual agreement.
- Annual base salary $800k; target cash bonus 200% ($1.6M); equity grants: $7.2M RSUs, $10.8M PSUs (relative TSR), $30M Value Creation Award (stock price hurdles $40/$50/$60).
- RSUs vest 1/3 at first anniversary then quarterly; PSUs vest on third anniversary; Value Creation Award vests 50% upon stock price hurdle, 50% after 3 years.
- Severance: 12 months base salary continuation, target bonus (1.5x if within 1 yr of change in control), continued healthcare, equity acceleration per terms.
- Rascoff co-founded Zillow and served as its CEO for 10 years; also co-founded Hotwire and Pacaso; visiting professor at Harvard.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000898822-25-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MTCH
- cik: 0000891103
- company_name: Match Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089882225000002/0000898822-25-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089882225000002/mtch8k020325.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000898822-25-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Spencer Rascoff was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Match Group, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: appointed Spencer Rascoff as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective February 4, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089882225000002/0000898822-25-000002-index.htm
- Executive change
  Bernard Kim resigned as Chief Executive Officer and Director at Match Group, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and Director
  source text: who by mutual agreement with the Board has resigned his positions as Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company, effective on the Effective Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089882225000002/0000898822-25-000002-index.htm

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