---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-23-000574"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IVFH"
cik: "0000312257"
company_name: "INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T17:32:40.174256+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Innovative Food Holdings appoints COO Smallwood to board, reduces board size, elects Pappas Chairman

## Summary
- Appointed Brady Smallwood, COO, as director effective May 17, 2023, as designee of CEO Bill Bennett.
- Board amended bylaws to reduce maximum board size from 10 to 8 members, effective immediately.
- Annual meeting reelected all seven director nominees, ratified auditors, and approved say-on-pay vote.
- Board elected James Pappas as Chairman, effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-23-000574
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IVFH
- cik: 0000312257
- company_name: INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518523000574/0001185185-23-000574-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518523000574/innovfood20230522_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-23-000574.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brady Smallwood was appointed as Director at INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 17, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (the “ Company ”, “ we ”, or “ our ”) appointed Mr. Brady Smallwood, the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, as a director of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518523000574/0001185185-23-000574-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC: Decreased maximum board size from ten to eight members (effective 2023-05-17).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-17
  source text: the Board approved and adopted an amendment to the Company’s bylaws to decrease and fix the maximum size of the Board from ten members to eight members, effectively immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518523000574/0001185185-23-000574-index.htm

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