---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001965040-23-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FTRE"
cik: "0001965040"
company_name: "Fortrea Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T20:20:31.117908+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fortrea appoints David Smith to Board as Audit Committee chair

## Summary
- Board size increased from two to three; David Smith appointed effective June 15, 2023.
- Smith will serve as chair of the Audit Committee.
- He is former EVP and CFO of Charles River Laboratories, retired May 2022.
- Compensation per standard director program described in Fortrea's Form 10.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001965040-23-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FTRE
- cik: 0001965040
- company_name: Fortrea Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504023000008/0001965040-23-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504023000008/ftre-20230615.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001965040-23-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Smith was appointed as Director at Fortrea Holdings Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective June 15, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Fortrea Holdings Inc. (“Fortrea”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (“Labcorp”), increased the size of the Board from two to three and appointed David Smith as a member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504023000008/0001965040-23-000008-index.htm

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