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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$16,188,865

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Grindr by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 30, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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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.

How this page was built: the Grindr Inc. filed document, accession 0001140361-26-018315. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 30, 2026.

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.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 30, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-10-01Tax withholding—36,888$14.17706,729

The 1 most recent of 1 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Grindr discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Disability$0$0$0$43,750
Death$0$0$0$43,750
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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