---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-003975"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRNO"
cik: "0001848416"
company_name: "Verano Holdings Corp."
filed_at: "2025-04-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T15:39:31.893601+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verano CFO Brett Summerer resigns; Richard Tarapchak appointed as replacement

## Summary
- Brett Summerer resigned as CFO effective April 11, 2025; no disagreements cited.
- Separation package: $415k cash over 12 months, COBRA reimbursement, vesting of 284,908 RSUs and $466,875 cash awards.
- Richard Tarapchak, previously EVP Finance & Corporate Controller, promoted to CFO effective April 11, 2025.
- Josh Heine appointed VP, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer; base salary $255,000.
- Tarapchak's salary set at $415,000 with target bonus of 100% and LTI grant of 175% of base.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-003975
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRNO
- cik: 0001848416
- company_name: Verano Holdings Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-04-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1848416/000164117225003975/0001641172-25-003975-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1848416/000164117225003975/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Richard Tarapchak was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Verano Holdings Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 11, 2025, Richard Tarapchak was promoted and appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and its subsidiaries and was designated as the Company’s Principal Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1848416/000164117225003975/0001641172-25-003975-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brett Summerer resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Verano Holdings Corp..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 14, 2025, Verano Holdings Corp., a British Columbia corporation (the “ Company ”), announced that Brett Summerer resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and from all officer and other positions with its subsidiaries.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1848416/000164117225003975/0001641172-25-003975-index.htm

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