Sprout Social SPT

On March 11, 2026, the Board of Directors of Sprout Social, Inc. appointed Ryan Barretto, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, to serve as the Company's interim principal financial officer and interim principal accounting officer, effective as of March 11, 2026. Ryan Barretto was appointed CEO of Sprout Social and became a member of the board of directors in October 2024. He joined Sprout Social in 2016 as Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Success and was promoted to President in December 2020, where he led go-to-market operations, including Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Partnerships. Before joining Sprout Social, Mr. Barretto was Vice President of Global Sales, Pardot for Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRM), a cloud-based software company, from November 2014 to June 2016 and the Area Vice President, Commercial Sales for Salesforce.com, Inc. from February 2012 to October 2014. Mr. Barretto holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master's degree in International Marketing from the University of Strathclyde. Mr. Barretto currently serves as a member of the board of directors of re:WORK TRAINING and FullStory.

Justyn Howard co-founded Sprout Social and was appointed the Executive Chair in October 2024. Mr. Howard served as our CEO and Chairman of our board of directors from April 2010 until October 2024. From April 2010 until December 2020, he also served as our President. Mr. Howard won a number of awards and honors as our CEO, including recognition in Glassdoor's Highest Rated CEOs in 2019, 2018 and 2017 for U.S. companies with less than 1,000 employees, winning Built in Chicago's Moxie Awards CEO of the Year for 2017. Prior to founding Sprout Social, Mr. Howard held Enterprise Sales roles for Saas Learning Management provider Learn.com.

Gregory Brown has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2025. Since January 2026, Mr. Brown has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Illumia (formerly Transact/CBORD). Mr. Brown previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Udemy, Inc. (NASDAQ: UDMY) and as a member of its board of directors from March 2023 until June 2025. Before becoming Chief Executive Officer, he joined Udemy in December 2020 and served as President of Udemy Business, where he led the company's Corporate Business Unit. Prior to his roles at Udemy, Mr. Brown served as Chief Executive Officer of Reflektive, a performance, engagement, and analytics solutions platform, from August 2019 to December 2020. From August 2017 to August 2019, he was Senior Vice President of International Business at Blackhawk Network (NASDAQ: HAWK), a global payments solutions provider. Before that, he served as Chief Revenue Officer for Achievers, a developer of cloud-based employee engagement software, from February 2013 to August 2017, and as Chief Revenue Officer for Extole, an advocate-marketing software platform, from April 2011 to February 2013. Mr. Brown currently serves on the board of directors of Splice, Inc., a private company, where he was appointed in November 2024. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Peter Barris has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2011. In April 2024, Mr. Barris was appointed lead independent director (Lead Independent Director) of the Company's board of directors. Mr. Barris joined New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), a global venture capital fund investing in technology and healthcare, where he specialized in information technology investing, in 1992 and retired at the end of 2019. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Barris held several roles at NEA, including Managing General Partner of NEA. He is currently the Chairman Emeritus of NEA. Prior to NEA, Mr. Barris served in several senior operating roles in the three different public companies, including General Electric. Mr. Barris currently serves on the board of directors for private company Tamr, Inc. In addition, Mr. Barris is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, and serves on the boards of the Brookings Institution, P33, THI and In-Q-Tel. He has been named several times to the Forbes Midas List of top technology investors, to Washington Tech Council's Hall of Fame, and to the Washington Business Hall of Fame. In the previous five years, Mr. Barris was a member of the board of directors of Tempus AI (NASDAQ: TEM), Berkshire Grey, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGRY), ZeroFox Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZFOX), Catalytic, Inc., Upskill, Inc., Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) and NextNav, Inc. (NASDAQ: NN). Mr. Barris holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. Mr. Barris brings to our board of directors a sophisticated knowledge of information technology companies that includes investments in over three dozen information technology companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers as well as experience serving as a director of several public companies.

Steven Collins has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2019. From June 2011 to February 2014, Mr. Collins served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ExactTarget, Inc., a cross-channel digital marketing company that was acquired by Salesforce.com, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Collins held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NAVTEQ Corporation, a digital mapping company. Mr. Collins was with NAVTEQ Corporation from 2003 through 2011 and served as the Vice President of Finance and the Senior Vice President of Finance & Accounting prior to being named Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Collins previously served on the board of directors of nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO) and Paycor HCM, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYCR). Mr. Collins holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Mr. Collins is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive finance and software industry experience as well as his strong business acumen and leadership skills.

Karen Walker has been a member of our board of directors since August 2019. Since February 2023, Ms. Walker has served as an Operating Partner of the Value Accelerator Practice of the Merchant Banking Division at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC. From September 2019 to February 2023, Ms. Walker was the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation. From 2009 until July 2019, Ms. Walker was employed by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) (Cisco) where her last position was as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Ms. Walker was recognized by Forbes as being one of the Top 10 World's Most Influential CMOs (2017, 2019). Cisco was also recognized as having an award-winning Digital Marketing Foundation by Oracle and Martech. Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Walker worked at Hewlett-Packard, Inc. (NYSE: HPE) as Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for both the Consumer Digital Entertainment and Personal Systems groups. From October 2018 until January 2025, Ms. Walker served as a member of the board of advisors of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), a global healthcare and pharmaceutical company. Ms. Walker is a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board of Silicon Valley. Ms. Walker holds a Bachelor's degree with joint honors in chemistry and business studies from Loughborough University and an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from Sunderland University, both in England.

Thomas Stanley has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Since March 2025, Mr. Stanley has served as a Value Accelerator Advisor to Goldman Sachs, where he advises companies on growth and go-to-market strategy. From December 2021 until September 2023, Mr. Stanley served as the President and Chief Revenue Officer of Chainalysis, Inc., a global blockchain data platform that provides blockchain-related data, software, services, and research. Prior to that, Mr. Stanley was the Chief Revenue Officer of Tanium, Inc., an information technology company focused on enterprise-scale information security and systems management from August 2019 until December 2021, and from August 2006 to September 2019, Mr. Stanley was employed by NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a hybrid cloud data services and data management company, where his most recent position was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas. Mr. Stanley currently serves on the board of directors of Nasuni, Inc., Boys Hope Girls Hope International, and the North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation. Mr. Stanley holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and Master's degree in Business Administration from the Carlton School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Aaron Rankin co-founded Sprout Social. He has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2010. From April 2010 to December 2023, Mr. Rankin served as our Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding Sprout Social, Mr. Rankin was a software engineer at Endeca Technologies, Inc., a software company, from August 2006 until February 2010 and was an IT Architect at IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM), a technology company, from August 2004 until August 2006. Mr. Rankin holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.