---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-010567"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFM"
cik: "0001575515"
company_name: "Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T07:39:23.047545+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sprouts Farmers Market appoints Hari Avula to board of directors

## Summary
- Hari Avula appointed as Class II director, term expiring at 2024 annual meeting.
- Avula will serve on the Audit and Risk Committees of the board.
- He is CFO and Strategy Officer of Clif Bar & Company; previously at Walgreens and PepsiCo.
- Board size increases from seven to eight members due to appointment.
- No related party transactions or arrangements; standard compensation plan applies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-010567
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFM
- cik: 0001575515
- company_name: Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017022010567/0000950170-22-010567-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017022010567/sfm-20220524.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-010567.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hari Avula was appointed as Class II Director at Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On May 24, 2022, Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Hari Avula to its Board of Directors as a Class II director with a term expiring at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017022010567/0000950170-22-010567-index.htm

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