---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001575515-26-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFM"
cik: "0001575515"
company_name: "Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-19T20:17:28+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:07:28.411674+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sprouts Farmers Market appoints Andrew Jhawar to board; Doug Rauch retires

## Summary
- Andrew Jhawar appointed as Class III director with term expiring at 2028 annual meeting.
- Jhawar to serve on Audit Committee and receive standard independent director compensation.
- Doug Rauch retired from board effective May 19, 2026, reducing board from nine to eight members.
- No family relationships or material transactions involving Jhawar per Item 404(a) of Reg S-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001575515-26-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFM
- cik: 0001575515
- company_name: Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-19T20:17:28+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000157551526000025/0001575515-26-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000157551526000025/sfm-20260519.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001575515-26-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Doug Rauch retired as Director at Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 19, 2026, the Company issued a press release announcing Mr. Jhawar’s appointment to and Doug Rauch’s retirement from the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000157551526000025/0001575515-26-000025-index.htm
- Executive change
  Andrew Jhawar was appointed as Class III Director at Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class III Director
  source text: On May 19, 2026, Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Andrew Jhawar to its Board of Directors (the “Board”) as a Class III director with a term expiring at the Company’s 2028 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000157551526000025/0001575515-26-000025-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.