Global Chief Operating Officer · FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP (FA)

Douglas Nairne

A named executive officer of FIRST ADVANTAGE in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$849,621

FY2024: $1,637,665

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 24, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Douglas Nairne compensation by year

FIRST ADVANTAGE Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as FIRST ADVANTAGE reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$354,521$500,121
Bonus$192,710$349,500
Stock awards$534,348$0
Option awards$492,086$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$64,000$0
Total$1,637,665$849,621

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP DEF 14A filed April 24, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-177294, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.6M
$850K
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU20,478$297,545—
PSU7,000$101,710—
PSU2,229$32,387—
PSU1,431$20,792—
Option43,809—$17.85
Option14,000—$16.02
Option5,775—$11.12
Option4,306—$15.81

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

2 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 24, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-05-11Exercise or conversion—715—47,457
2026-05-11Exercise or conversion derivative—715$0.00716

The 2 most recent of 2 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments FIRST ADVANTAGE discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$250,000$0$0$250,000
Change in control and involuntary termination$250,000$472,128$0$722,128
Death$0$231,922$0$231,922

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

FIRST ADVANTAGE’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Scott StaplesChief Executive Officer$1,282,350
Joelle SmithPresident$1,107,350
Bret JardineChief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$903,577
Douglas Nairne · this pageGlobal Chief Operating Officer$849,621
Steven MarksChief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President$732,350

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How this record is built

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