---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001401257-25-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FET"
cik: "0001401257"
company_name: "FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T06:12:08.519823+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forum Energy appoints Aron Marquez and Mark Smith to its board of directors

## Summary
- Board expanded to nine; Marquez appointed Class III director (term expiring 2027).
- Smith appointed Class I director (term expiring 2028); both receive standard non-employee director compensation.
- Each director receives restricted stock award valued at approximately $75,000.
- Marquez will serve on Nominating, Governance & Sustainability and Compensation committees.
- Smith will serve on Audit and Compensation & Human Capital committees.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001401257-25-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FET
- cik: 0001401257
- company_name: FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401257/000140125725000082/0001401257-25-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401257/000140125725000082/fet-20250613.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Aron H. Marquez was appointed as Director at FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. Marquez was appointed as a Class III director with a term expiring at the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401257/000140125725000082/0001401257-25-000082-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mark W. Smith was appointed as Director at FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. Smith was appointed as a Class I director with a term expiring at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401257/000140125725000082/0001401257-25-000082-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.