---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-017331"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001871149"
company_name: "Real Good Food Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T05:50:58.602475+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RGF appoints Niki Gwaltney Rutter as CFO ($450k base, $100k sign-on); Nasdaq delisting Jan 6

## Summary
- CFO appointment effective Feb 10, 2025; base salary of $450k/year, $100k sign-on bonus, up to 100% performance bonus.
- Severance: 12 months of base salary if terminated without cause for any reason other than gross misconduct.
- Nasdaq Hearings Panel determined to delist common stock; trading suspended effective Jan 6, 2025.
- Rutter previously VP of Accounting at Mountaire Farms (Sep 2020–Jan 2025) and VP of Finance at Purdue.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-017331
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001871149
- company_name: Real Good Food Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1871149/000119312525017331/0001193125-25-017331-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1871149/000119312525017331/d928493d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-017331
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-017331.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-017331.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Niki Gwaltney Rutter was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Real Good Food Company, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On January 26, 2025, the Company appointed Niki Gwaltney Rutter as the Company’s CFO, effective February 10, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1871149/000119312525017331/0001193125-25-017331-index.htm

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