---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-005445"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROIV"
cik: "0001635088"
company_name: "Roivant Sciences Ltd."
filed_at: "2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:56:30.851581+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Roivant Sciences appoints Jennifer Humes as Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Rakhi Kumar stepped down as Principal Accounting Officer and Chief Accounting Officer effective February 20, 2025.
- Jennifer Humes appointed as successor; previously Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase leading 80+ controllers.
- Humes receives annual base salary of $380,000, sign-on bonus of $261,500, and target annual cash bonus of $190,000.
- Equity grants: RSUs valued ~$1.2M and options valued ~$800,000 (Black-Scholes), vesting over multi-year schedules.
- No family relationships or related-person transactions involving Humes and the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-005445
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROIV
- cik: 0001635088
- company_name: Roivant Sciences Ltd.
- filed_at: 2025-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1635088/000114036125005445/0001140361-25-005445-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1635088/000114036125005445/ef20044121_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jennifer Humes was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at Roivant Sciences Ltd..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: The Company has appointed Jennifer Humes to serve as its Principal Accounting Officer and as Chief Accounting Officer of RSI from the Effective Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1635088/000114036125005445/0001140361-25-005445-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rakhi Kumar departed as Principal Accounting Officer at Roivant Sciences Ltd..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Rakhi Kumar stepped down from her role as the Principal Accounting Officer of Roivant Sciences Ltd. (the “Company”) and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company’s subsidiary, Roivant Sciences, Inc. (“RSI”) effective February 20, 2025 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1635088/000114036125005445/0001140361-25-005445-index.htm

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