---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001656472-25-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRON"
cik: "0001656472"
company_name: "Cronos Group Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T11:49:45.360384+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cronos Group appoints Anna Shlimak as CFO; James Holm departs

## Summary
- Anna Shlimak appointed CFO effective March 19, 2025; James Holm ceases as CFO but remains employed through April 18, 2025.
- Shlimak previously Chief Strategy Officer since Sep 2024; joined Cronos in 2018 as Head of IR.
- Shlimak receives base salary $372,000, target bonus 115% of salary, one-time RSU award $157,800.
- Holm receives cash severance $385,000 (one year salary), prorated bonus $104,046, and accelerated option vesting.
- Holm subject to non-competition and non-solicitation covenants through April 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001656472-25-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRON
- cik: 0001656472
- company_name: Cronos Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656472/000165647225000047/0001656472-25-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656472/000165647225000047/cron-20250319.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  James Holm departed as Chief Financial Officer at Cronos Group Inc..
  - Action: separated
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: As of the Effective Date, James Holm will no longer serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656472/000165647225000047/0001656472-25-000047-index.htm
- Executive change
  Anna Shlimak was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Cronos Group Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective as of March 19, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), Cronos Group Inc. (the “Company”) has appointed Anna Shlimak, the Company’s Chief Strategy Officer, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656472/000165647225000047/0001656472-25-000047-index.htm

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