---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-22-001155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWDI"
cik: "0000038264"
company_name: "Forward Industries, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-02-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T06:44:07.072736+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forward Industries elects Sharon Hrynkow as director, grants options, appoints committee chairs

## Summary
- Sharon Hrynkow elected to board; granted 31,095 stock options at $1.68/share vesting in one year.
- Hrynkow receives $37,500 pro-rata cash compensation for FY2022; will chair Compensation Committee.
- James Ziglar appointed Chairman of Nominating and Governance Committee.
- Annual meeting results: four director nominees elected; accounting firm ratification approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-22-001155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWDI
- cik: 0000038264
- company_name: Forward Industries, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-02-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316822001155/0001683168-22-001155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316822001155/forward_8k2.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-22-001155
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-22-001155.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-22-001155.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sharon Hrynkow was elected as Director at Forward Industries, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 16, 2022, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Forward Industries, Inc. (the “Company”), in connection with her election as a director of the Company, granted 31,095 five-year stock options exercisable at $1.68 per share to Ms. Sharon Hrynkow.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316822001155/0001683168-22-001155-index.htm

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