---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-036466"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFM"
cik: "0001575515"
company_name: "Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T18:12:32.733341+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sprouts CFO Chip Molloy to retire at end of 2023; search for successor underway

## Summary
- Chip Molloy notified Sprouts of retirement effective on or about Dec 31, 2023.
- Molloy joined in 2013 as board member, served as interim CFO (2019-2020) and CFO since Sept 2021.
- Company will conduct internal and external search for a successor.
- CEO Jack Sinclair thanked Molloy for integral role in Sprouts' development and growth strategy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-036466
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFM
- cik: 0001575515
- company_name: Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023036466/0000950170-23-036466-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023036466/sfm-20230801.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-036466.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Chip Molloy departed as Chief Financial Officer at Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc..
  - Action: intends to retire
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On August 1, 2023, Lawrence (“Chip”) P. Molloy, Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer) of Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that he intends to retire from the Company effective on or about December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023036466/0000950170-23-036466-index.htm

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