---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-26-060126"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BETR"
cik: "0001835856"
company_name: "Better Home & Finance Holding Co"
filed_at: "2026-09-02T20:30:33+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-09-02T20:32:31.221723+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Hugh Frater to resign if former CEO Vishal Garg reassumes executive role

## Summary
- On Aug 27, 2026, director Hugh Frater notified Better Home & Finance of intent to resign if Vishal Garg, former CEO and current director, takes any executive role.
- Resignation would occur if Garg serves as director with executive responsibilities; no actual departure yet.
- Garg is a current director; Frater's resignation is conditional on Garg's future executive role.
- Notice delivered Aug 27, 2026; 8-K signed Sep 2, 2026 by General Counsel Paula Tuffin.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-060126
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BETR
- cik: 0001835856
- company_name: Better Home & Finance Holding Co
- filed_at: 2026-09-02T20:30:33+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835856/000162828026060126/0001628280-26-060126-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835856/000162828026060126/betr-20260827.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-060126
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-060126.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-060126.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hugh Frater departed as Director at Better Home & Finance Holding Co.
  - Action: intention to resign
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 27, 2026, Hugh Frater, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Better Home & Finance Holding Company (the “Company”), informed the Company of his intention to resign from the Board in the event that Vishal Garg, the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer and a current director, assumes any executive role with the Company, including serving as a director with executive responsibilities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835856/000162828026060126/0001628280-26-060126-index.htm

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