Published mark

FORWARD AIR CORP

NASDAQ: FWRD. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

US

Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
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Alpha ID
alpha:company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b
SEC CIK
0000912728
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 11, 2026
Newest evidence
May 3, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
Scott StewartSince Apr 29, 2026
Chair
Jerome Lorrain
Independent
Not published3 directors published
Published claims
273 distinct sources
Evidence records
70 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 3 distinct sources and 7 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works

EXECUTIVE APPOINTED

Dacona Smith executive of FORWARD AIR CORP, effective 2026-04-29.

EffectiveEffective Apr 29, 2026E4

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
Chief People OfficerDacona SmithApr 2026currentSource reportedE4
Chief Executive OfficerScott StewartApr 2026currentSource reportedE6
Chief People OfficerDoug SmithNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Commercial OfficerEric BrandtNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Financial OfficerJamie PiersonNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Information OfficerJoseph M. TomaselloNot capturedunknownSource reportedE5
Chief Legal Officer and SecretaryMichael L. HanceNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Executive OfficerShawn StewartNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
President, U.S. & CanadaTimothy OsborneNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2

Board of directors

Evidence

3 directors published. Independence determinations are not published for every director.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Christine M. GorjancIndependence not published2024AUDIT COMMITTEE, chairCOMPENSATION COMMITTEECorporate Governance and Nominating CommitteeSource reportedE3
Dale W. BoylesIndependence not published2024AUDIT COMMITTEECOMPENSATION COMMITTEECorporate Governance and Nominating CommitteeSource reportedE3
Paul SvindlandIndependence not published2025None publishedSource reportedE3
Jerome LorrainNot independentChairNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Shawn StewartNot independentNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
AUDIT COMMITTEEChristine M. GorjancChristine M. Gorjanc, Dale W. BoylesNot described in the published record
COMPENSATION COMMITTEENot publishedChristine M. Gorjanc, Dale W. BoylesNot described in the published record
Corporate Governance and Nominating CommitteeNot publishedChristine M. Gorjanc, Dale W. BoylesNot described in the published record
Committee RecordAUDIT COMMITTEE: Chair Christine M. Gorjanc; Members Christine M. Gorjanc (Chair); Dale W. Boyles
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_record:19
Committee AppointmentChristine M. Gorjanc: chair, AUDIT COMMITTEE
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_appointment:20
Committee AppointmentDale W. Boyles: member, AUDIT COMMITTEE
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_appointment:21
Committee RecordCOMPENSATION COMMITTEE: Chair not stated; Members Christine M. Gorjanc; Dale W. Boyles
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_record:22
Committee AppointmentChristine M. Gorjanc: member, COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_appointment:23
Committee AppointmentDale W. Boyles: member, COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_appointment:24
Committee RecordCorporate Governance and Nominating Committee: Chair not stated; Members Christine M. Gorjanc; Dale W. Boyles
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_record:25
Committee AppointmentChristine M. Gorjanc: member, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_appointment:26
Committee AppointmentDale W. Boyles: member, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
Source reportedE7
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:committee_appointment:27

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerScott Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, from Apr 29, 2026
Source reportedE6
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:leadership_role:16
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
bind
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingFWRD (NASDAQ)
Source reportedE1
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:security_listing:28
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 11, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameFORWARD AIR CORP
Source reportedE1
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:1edb1cc7-ce0a-4436-a5a1-dc03b8d7b43b:entity_status:3

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

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Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
7 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 11, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    SEC DEF 14A 0001104659-26-051569
    sec def 14a. Published Apr 29, 2026. Retrieved Sep 6, 2026. Cited by 8 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    DEF 14A tm2612551-4_def14a.htm
    sec proxy. Published Apr 29, 2026. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 3 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    FWRD DEF 14A executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 29, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    FWRD executive roster source
    sec filing. Published May 3, 2026. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authority not assessed
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  6. E6
    FWRD DEF 14A executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 29, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  7. E7
    AUDIT COMMITTEE
    governance_people_committees. sec proxy. Cited by 9 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 11, 2026
  • Dacona Smith executive of FORWARD AIR CORP, effective 2026-04-29.
  • Scott Stewart executive of FORWARD AIR CORP, effective 2026-04-29.
  • Paul Svindland seat on FORWARD AIR CORP, effective 2025-01-01.
  • Christine M. Gorjanc seat on FORWARD AIR CORP, effective 2024-01-01.
  • Dale W. Boyles seat on FORWARD AIR CORP, effective 2024-01-01.
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  7. Authority to act4
  8. Financials1
  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims3
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people13
  17. Subject and corrections6
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