---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001819574-23-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BARK"
cik: "0001819574"
company_name: "Bark, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T06:27:36.852328+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BARK CTO Nari Sitaraman resigns; Eric Picard to assume responsibilities

## Summary
- Nari Sitaraman resigns as CTO effective Jan 19, 2024, to take a role at another company.
- Eric Picard, VP of Product Management, will assume CTO responsibilities after Sitaraman's departure.
- Sitaraman had been with BARK for two years, helping broaden product portfolio and launch BARK.co.
- Picard brings prior experience from Pandora and Microsoft in high-growth tech and established companies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001819574-23-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BARK
- cik: 0001819574
- company_name: Bark, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-28T23:59:59+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/1819574/000181957423000049/0001819574-23-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819574/000181957423000049/bark-20231222.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001819574-23-000049.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nari Sitaraman resigned as Chief Technology Officer at Bark, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Technology Officer
  source text: On December 28, 2023, BARK, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Nari Sitaraman resigned as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer to pursue another professional opportunity effective January 19, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819574/000181957423000049/0001819574-23-000049-index.htm

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