Company: FWDI
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001683168-25-004653
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Company: Forward Industries, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: DEF 14A
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SE: TEN), an operator of entertainment centres. Ms. Shah also serves as a board
director of Quoted Companies Alliance which represents over 90% of small and midsized market cap FTSE companies. Ms. Shah previously worked
in seed/mezzanine financing and strategic investments within the environmental and technology sectors following a number of senior roles
held at KPMG, Ernst & Young, Unilever and Mars Inc. She has spent 20 years volunteering for Windsor Leadership, a charity based on
providing leadership courses at Windsor Castle and established by the Duke of Edinburgh and Professor Charles Handy. Ms. Shah was selected
as a director for her board and accounting experience, and she also serves as our Chairman. She previously served as our Lead Director.

Sharon Hrynkow. Dr. Sharon Hrynkow is President
& CEO of Life Science Works, a firm that empowers life science entrepreneurs by securing non-dilutive funding. Prior roles include
Chief Scientific Officer and Senior VP for Medical Affairs at Cyclo Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CYTH, acquired by RFL) where she launched
and led its drug development programs from 2015 to 2022; leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health and Department of State
from 1992 to 2012; and inaugural president of the Global Virus Network, a 501c3 from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Hrynkow, a neuroscientist,
is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
She advises a range of non-profit organizations on science and health matters, including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering
and Medicine. She has served as an appointee to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Keith Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been a
director of the Company since May 2025. Since May 2023, Mr. Johnson has been the interim Chief Financial Officer of Amaze Holdings
Inc. (NYSE American: AMZE), an e-commerce wine product company. Beginning until May 2023, Mr. Johnson provided consulting and
accounting services to several companies on a contract basis. Prior to that, Mr. Johnson served as Chief Financial Officer of
Watertech Equipment & Sales, a startup company formed to develop biological pathogen reduction technologies from October
2014 until December 2020. Since April 2020, Mr. Johnson has served on the