---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-25-000536"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IVFH"
cik: "0000312257"
company_name: "INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T23:02:52.759484+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Independent director Sam Klepfish resigns from Innovative Food Holdings board

## Summary
- Sam Klepfish resigned as independent director effective May 15, 2025, for personal reasons, not due to any disagreement with the company.
- He also stepped down from the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
- Klepfish retains board observer rights under existing 2023 agreements but will not currently exercise them.
- No changes were made to the SK Agreements; they remain effective.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-25-000536
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IVFH
- cik: 0000312257
- company_name: INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525000536/0001185185-25-000536-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525000536/ivfh8k051625.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-25-000536
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-25-000536.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-25-000536.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sam Klepfish resigned as independent member of the board of directors at INNOVATIVE FOOD HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: independent member of the board of directors
  source text: On May 15, 2025, Sam Klepfish resigned from his position as an independent member of the board of directors (“Board”) of Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) and as a member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312257/000118518525000536/0001185185-25-000536-index.htm

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