About FindABoardSeat
FindABoardSeat is a board intelligence platform that turns SEC filings into a map of who sits on every US-listed public company board and where seats are about to open — for aspiring directors, the programs that prepare them, and the search firms that fill those seats.
What FindABoardSeat Does
Public Board Profiles Live
3,791+ NYSE and Nasdaq companies, with 42,188+ directors — age, tenure, independence, committee membership, and governance policy — extracted from each company's own DEF 14A proxy statement.
Board Vacancy Signals Live
Director appointments and departures, pulled from 8-K Item 5.02 filings within days of filing, plus a vacancy clock built from mandatory retirement ages and board term limits so you can see which seats open next, not just which are open today.
Seats Opening Newsletter Coming
A newsletter generated from the same filing feed: who's retiring, who just joined a board and from where, and which seats are likely to open in the next 12–24 months.
Board Seat Radar Coming
Enter your profile and get a ranked list of public boards where a seat is statistically likely to open, where the board's own skills matrix has a gap you fill, with the nominating and governance committee members named so you know who to reach.
Research for Search Firms and Programs Live
Custom research reports today — expected board vacancies by sector, committee membership, comp benchmarks — sold to boutique search firms and board-readiness programs off the same underlying data that will power a self-serve research console.
What Makes FindABoardSeat Different
Priced for the Rest of the Market
BoardEx and Equilar license governance data at institutional prices, built for large asset managers and Fortune 500 governance teams. FindABoardSeat is built for individual directors, boutique search firms, and board-readiness programs who were priced out.
Full Small- and Mid-Cap Coverage
Coverage spans the whole NYSE and Nasdaq universe, not just the S&P 500 the large providers focus on. Small-cap boards are where first-time directors actually get seated, and they're the segment the big data vendors serve worst.
Openings, Not Opinions
The product is a map of where seats are likely to open — from retirement-age policy, term limits, and real-time 8-K filings — not a "board readiness" score or a certification badge that no nominating committee has ever filtered on.
Data, Not Placement
FindABoardSeat doesn't run a search practice and doesn't charge placement fees. There's no pay-to-play, no candidate marketplace, and no conflict between what the data shows and what gets recommended.
Every Fact Traces to a Filing
Every board profile links back to the DEF 14A or 8-K it came from, updated daily as filings land on EDGAR — so nothing on the site is an estimate or a guess.
Who Uses FindABoardSeat
- Aspiring first-time public-company directors — sitting CFOs, CEOs, and other C-suite executives networking toward their first board seat.
- Board-readiness programs and director-education chapters preparing cohorts for public boards.
- Boutique and independent board-search firms who need committee, tenure, and comp data without a BoardEx-sized budget.
- Corporate secretaries and nominating/governance committee chairs at small-cap companies benchmarking their own board ahead of proxy season.
The Team Behind FindABoardSeat
Gavin Gee, Founder
Gavin has spent 25 years as an entrepreneur and software executive, working closely with board search and board placements and with deep connections in the director network. He specializes in AI and in building software products that scale, and started FindABoardSeat to help aspiring directors find their next board seat.
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Data pipeline
The pipeline reads SEC EDGAR's daily filing index, so new proxy statements and 8-K board changes for tracked companies reach the site within a day of filing — not a quarterly or annual refresh.
Getting in touch
Public board profiles need no account. For research reports, program partnerships, or press inquiries, reach out through the Get Started page.
Key Facts
- Company Name
- FindABoardSeat
- Type
- Board governance data platform
- Founder
- Gavin Gee
- Website
- findaboardseat.com
- Core Offering
- Public company board composition and vacancy data, sourced from SEC filings
- Pricing
- Free public board profiles; research reports quoted per project
- Services
- Board profiles, vacancy signals, custom research reports
- Coverage
- 3,791+ NYSE/Nasdaq companies, 42,188+ directors
- Data Source
- SEC EDGAR (DEF 14A proxy statements, 8-K Item 5.02 filings)
- Update Frequency
- Daily
- Competitors
- BoardEx, Equilar
- Social
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does the data come from?
Every board, director, and vacancy signal comes from a company's own SEC filings — DEF 14A proxy statements for board composition and 8-K Item 5.02 filings for appointments and departures. Each board links back to the filing it was extracted from.
Does FindABoardSeat place directors?
No. It's a data and research platform, not a search firm. It surfaces which boards are likely to have openings and who the gatekeepers are; the networking and placement happen through you, a search firm, or a program.
How current is the data?
The pipeline checks EDGAR's daily filing index, so new proxy data and board changes for tracked companies reach the site within a day of filing.
How is this different from BoardEx or Equilar?
Those are priced for large institutions and focus on the largest public companies. FindABoardSeat covers the full NYSE/Nasdaq small- and mid-cap universe, priced for individual directors, programs, and boutique search firms.
Is FindABoardSeat free?
Public board profiles are free to browse. Custom research reports for search firms and programs are quoted per project.
Do you cover private companies?
No. Board composition and governance policy are only disclosed in SEC filings for public companies, so coverage is US-listed public companies only.