---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-009791"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BARK"
cik: "0001819574"
company_name: "Bark, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T09:36:59.557761+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BARK appoints Paulette Dodson and Michele Meyer to Board of Directors

## Summary
- BARK appoints Paulette Dodson (former GC at PetSmart) and Michele Meyer (former President at General Mills) to Board, effective March 28, 2023.
- Board size increased from six to eight; both are Class B directors with terms expiring at 2023 annual meeting.
- Each receives $40,000 annual cash retainer, $300,000 initial RSU award vesting in one year, plus additional annual RSUs.
- Dodson joins Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee; Meyer joins Compensation Committee; each gets additional $5,000 retainer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-009791
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BARK
- cik: 0001819574
- company_name: Bark, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819574/000162828023009791/0001628280-23-009791-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819574/000162828023009791/bark-20230328.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-009791.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paulette Dodson was appointed as Director at Bark, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of BARK, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ms. Paulette Dodson and Ms. Michele Meyer as new Class B members of the Board, effective immediately, for respective terms expiring at the Company's 2023 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819574/000162828023009791/0001628280-23-009791-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michele Meyer was appointed as Director at Bark, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of BARK, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ms. Paulette Dodson and Ms. Michele Meyer as new Class B members of the Board, effective immediately, for respective terms expiring at the Company's 2023 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819574/000162828023009791/0001628280-23-009791-index.htm

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