---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001965040-24-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FTRE"
cik: "0001965040"
company_name: "Fortrea Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T21:50:11.142041+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fortrea appoints Machelle Sanders to Board of Directors; effective May 14

## Summary
- Machelle Sanders appointed to Fortrea’s Board as a Class II director, effective May 14, 2024, with term until 2025 annual meeting.
- Sanders is North Carolina Secretary of Commerce and brings over 30 years of pharmaceutical and biotechnology operational experience.
- She previously held quality assurance and manufacturing roles at Biogen, Purdue Pharma, and AkzoNobel, and serves on BioCryst board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001965040-24-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FTRE
- cik: 0001965040
- company_name: Fortrea Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/0001965040-24-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/ftre-20240514.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001965040-24-000024.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 52dba7ed40
  claim: Machelle Sanders was elected as Class II director at Fortrea Holdings Inc..
  evidence_excerpt: unanimously approved that Machelle Sanders be elected to fill the Class II director vacancy on the Board of the Company, effective May 14, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/0001965040-24-000024-index.htm
- claim_id: 09ac3f5cd88d4cb133ee25e63bd613099681bc43
  claim: Fortrea Holdings Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 1: Election of Directors The following nominees were elected to the Board to serve as Class I Directors until the Company’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders based on the following votes: Votes For Votes Against Votes Abstained Broker Non-Votes Edward Pesicka 73,429,206 4,816,629 31,458 6,283,137 David Smith 73,517,789 4,727,558 31,946 6,283,137
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/0001965040-24-000024-index.htm
- claim_id: 157b3912c6d036ecb2b7b2fb472dba08a9ff883a
  claim: Fortrea Holdings Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 2: Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 was ratified based upon the following votes: Votes For Votes Against Votes Abstained Broker Non-Votes 84,385,312 133,412 41,706 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/0001965040-24-000024-index.htm
- claim_id: 432f1246fc02a450b8cd18a6293f5e6c69de90b1
  claim: Fortrea Holdings Inc. shareholders approved Advisory Vote on the Frequency of Future Advisory Votes on Executive Compensation at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 4: Advisory Vote on the Frequency of Future Advisory Votes on Executive Compensation The proposal to vote, on an advisory basis, on a frequency of every one year for future advisory votes on the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers was approved, on an advisory basis, by the following final voting results: 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years Votes Abstained Broker Non-Votes 77,571,412 107,530 555,203 43,148 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/0001965040-24-000024-index.htm
- claim_id: b356e986bb3222b789f49c56033746167884d353
  claim: Fortrea Holdings Inc. shareholders approved Advisory Vote on the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 3: Advisory Vote on the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers The proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers was approved based upon the following votes: Votes For Votes Against Votes Abstained Broker Non-Votes 71,701,466 6,512,815 63,012 6,283,137
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1965040/000196504024000024/0001965040-24-000024-index.htm

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