Grove Collaborative: appoints Flip van den Bosch as principal financial officer

What happened

• Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. reported that on Oct 1, 2026 the Board appointed Flip van den Bosch, the Company’s Controller, as the Company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, effective Oct 1, 2026.
• The filing states Mr. van den Bosch, age 38, has served in the Company’s finance department since Oct 2022, most recently as Controller since Mar 2025, and previously worked in assurance at PricewaterhouseCoopers from Sep 2012 to Oct 2022. He is a certified public accountant and holds an LLM in Tax Law and a Master of Science in Economics from Radboud University.

Key details

• Compensation Committee approved a one-time cash retention bonus of $25,000, payable based on continued service through May 15, 2027.
• Annual base salary increased to $261,397, effective Sep 1, 2026.
• Grant of restricted stock units covering 30,000 shares of Class A Common Stock: 15,000 shares vest on May 15, 2027 and 15,000 shares vest on Aug 15, 2027, all subject to continued service.
• The filing states there are no arrangements or understandings with other persons regarding his appointment, no family relationships with Company directors or officers, and no transactions required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Why it may matter

• This report is Item 5.02: departure or appointment of officers and compensatory arrangements, and it covers the appointment of a principal financial officer and the related pay and equity grants.
• A filing does not show why the insider traded or why the company acted.