Interim Chief Executive Officer · Forward Industries, Inc. (FWDI)

Michael Pruitt

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Michael Pruitt as a named executive officer of Forward Industries; 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$873,817

1st of 4 named executive officers at Forward Industries by FY2025 total.

4 named officers on file for Forward Industries, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 26, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Michael Pruitt compensation by year

Forward Industries Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Forward Industries reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$75,000
Bonus$30,000
Stock awards$0
Option awards$713,817
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$55,000
Total$873,817

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Forward Industries, Inc. DEF 14A filed January 26, 2026, accession 0001683168-26-000507, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Forward Industries, Inc. filed document, accession 0001683168-26-000507. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed January 26, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU15,000$151,239—

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

Forward Industries’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael Pruitt · this pageInterim Chief Executive Officer$873,817
Kathleen WeisbergChief Financial Officer$725,992
Robert WildExecutive Officer of IPS$309,247
Terence WiseFormer Chief Executive Officer$168,500

Board service

Forward Industries board · FY2024–FY2025
Director compensation in US dollars, as Forward Industries reports it. Most recent year first; a dash means the company reported no figure in that column.
Fiscal yearCash feesStock awardsOption awardsOtherTotal
FY2025$15,000—$40,000—$55,000
FY2024—————

Each year as the company reported it in Forward Industries's director compensation table. Totals are the company's own disclosed totals.

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How this record is built

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