---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001482981-23-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COCO"
cik: "0001482981"
company_name: "Vita Coco Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T09:37:41.221847+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vita Coco appoints Corey Baker as CFO, succeeding interim CFO Rowena Ricalde who becomes CAO

## Summary
- Corey Baker appointed CFO effective after 10-K filing; previously SVP Global Finance at PepsiCo.
- Compensation: $365k base salary, 60% target bonus, $100k signing bonus payable Jan 2024 or earlier if terminated without cause.
- New-hire equity grant: $750k RSUs + $250k options; vesting schedule: 40% Y1, 30% Y2, 20% Y3, 10% Y4.
- Rowena Ricalde, who served as interim CFO since Sept 2022, becomes Chief Accounting Officer.
- Severance: one year base salary plus target bonus if terminated without cause.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001482981-23-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COCO
- cik: 0001482981
- company_name: Vita Coco Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298123000007/0001482981-23-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298123000007/coco-20230307.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Corey Baker was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Vita Coco Company, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 7, 2023, The Vita Coco Company, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) approved the appointment of Corey Baker as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298123000007/0001482981-23-000007-index.htm
- Executive change
  Rowena Ricalde was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Vita Coco Company, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Ms. Ricalde will be appointed Chief Accounting Officer and continue as the Principal Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1482981/000148298123000007/0001482981-23-000007-index.htm

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