Chief Financial Officer · Grindr Inc. (GRND)

John North

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for John North as a named executive officer of Grindr; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$16,188,865

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 30, 2026 (DEF 14A).

John North compensation by year

Grindr Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Grindr reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$43,750
Bonus$88,500
Stock awards$15,988,803
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$65,625
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$2,188
Total$16,188,865

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Grindr Inc. DEF 14A filed April 30, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-018315, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU812,408$11,000,000—
RSU730,000$9,884,200—
PSU553,914$7,500,000—
PSU44,313$600,000—
RSU18,002$243,747—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Grindr Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Grindr discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Disability$0$0$0—
Death$0$0$0—
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0
Change in control and resignation for good reason$0$0$0$0
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$175,000$3,153,800$22,000—
Change in control and involuntary termination$175,000$10,059,200$22,000—
Change in control, no termination$175,000$10,059,200$22,000—

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Grindr Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Grindr’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
George ArisonChief Executive Officer$56,168,082
John North · this pageChief Financial Officer$16,188,865
Austin BalanceChief Product Officer$7,937,153
Zachary KatzChief Legal Officer & Head of Global Affairs$6,083,486
Vandana Mehta-KrantzFormer Chief Financial Officer$4,395,619

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Grindr's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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