See the board seat before it opens.
An announcement tells you a seat has been filled. The proxy statement told you months earlier that it would open: a director reaching the board's retirement age, a term limit running out, a director the board says won't stand again. FindABoardSeat reads those rules for every NYSE and Nasdaq board, tracks every 8-K since, and links each fact to the filing it came from.
By the time a move is news, the seat is already filled.
Board-moves newsletters and press releases start from the 8-K, the filing a company makes after it has picked a director. The seat was visible long before that, in the board's own proxy statement. That's where we start.
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12–24 months out
The rule is in the proxy
Retirement age 75, a 12-year term limit, a director turning 74.
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Weeks before the vote
The board says who's leaving
"Will not stand for re-election." The NomGov committee is searching now.
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Within 4 business days
8-K: a director departs
The first public signal for most trackers.
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Search complete
8-K: the successor is named
The headline. The seat is gone.
Four things you won't get from a list of moves.
Openings dated from each board's own rules
We read each board's retirement age, term limit and departing directors from its proxy statement and put a date on every seat: the annual meeting at which it is due to open. 702 boards state a rule we can apply.
A rule of thumb like "boards with older directors will add someone" can't tell you which seat opens, or when.
Every board, not just the famous ones
First-time directors are mostly seated on small- and mid-cap boards, which are the ones curated lists skip. We cover every NYSE and Nasdaq company that files a proxy.
When we checked three issues of a popular paid board-moves newsletter entry by entry, our filings feed already had 93% of its US moves, plus director changes at 36 companies it never mentioned.
Every fact links to its filing
Who left, from which committee, why, and effective when, each linked to the exact DEF 14A or 8-K on SEC EDGAR, not a press release or an editor's summary. Check anything in one click.
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One seat, read from the filings.
Independent director, Audit Committee
A $1.2B industrial company, Nasdaq
- Director
- Age 73, on the board since 2014
- Board rule
- No re-election after age 75
- Seat opens
- May 2027 annual meeting
- Gap it leaves
- One of two audit committee financial experts
- Who to reach
- Chair, Nominating & Governance Committee
Sources: 2026 DEF 14A (ages, tenure, retirement policy, committees)
- A date, not a hunch. The board's own policy and the director's age give the meeting at which the seat opens.
- The skill the board will hire for. The departing director's committee seats show what the replacement needs: here, audit and financial expertise.
- The person who decides. Many seats are filled through the nominating committee's own network before anything is announced. Knowing who chairs it is the head start.
Announcement feeds tell you what happened. We tell you what's next.
| Board-moves newsletters | FindABoardSeat | |
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| When you hear about a seat | After the 8-K, usually once it's filled | Months earlier, from the proxy's rules and departing directors |
| Which boards | The moves the editor picks | Every NYSE and Nasdaq board with a proxy on file (3,880) |
| "Likely to open" lists | Rules of thumb about board age or gender mix | A dated opening per seat, from that board's stated policy |
| Detail per move | A line of text and a link to investor relations | Committees, reason, effective date, linked to the SEC filing |
| What you do with it | Read the list and work out what's relevant | A ranked list of boards that fit you, chair named, conflicts screened |
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