Chief Legal Officer and Secretary · FORWARD AIR CORP (FWRD)

Michael Hance

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Michael Hance as a named executive officer of FORWARD AIR; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,363,519

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Michael Hance compensation by year

FORWARD AIR Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as FORWARD AIR reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$500,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$600,000
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$257,250
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$6,269
Total$1,363,519

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: FORWARD AIR CORP DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-051569, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU46,930$1,173,250—
RSU37,525$938,125—
Option1,101—$115.42

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

FORWARD AIR’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Shawn StewartChief Executive Officer$5,561,309
Jamie PiersonChief Financial Officer$3,139,966
Jerome LorrainExecutive Chairman$1,466,762
Michael Hance · this pageChief Legal Officer and Secretary$1,363,519
Eric BrandtChief Commercial Officer$1,286,226

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are FORWARD AIR's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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