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NERDWALLET, INC.

NASDAQ: NRDS. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

US

Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
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Alpha ID
alpha:company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe
SEC CIK
0001625278
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 23, 2026
Newest evidence
Apr 14, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
Tim ChenChief Executive Officer
Chair
Tim Chen
Independent
Not published4 directors published
Published claims
242 distinct sources
Evidence records
60 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 2 distinct sources and 6 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works

DIRECTOR APPOINTED

Jennifer E. Ceran seat on NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2026-04-14.

EffectiveEffective Apr 14, 2026E3

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
Named Executive OfficerJohn T.C. LeeApr 2026currentSource reportedE4
Named Executive OfficerSam YountApr 2026currentSource reportedE5
Chief Product OfficerDavid CovellNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Legal OfficerEkumene LysongeNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Financial OfficerJun Hyung LeeNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Accounting OfficerNicholas TatumNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Revenue OfficerSam MischnerNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Executive OfficerTim ChenNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2

Board of directors

Evidence

4 directors published. Independence determinations are not published for every director.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Anthony LingIndependence not published2025AUDIT COMMITTEESource reportedE3
Jennifer E. CeranIndependence not published2026None publishedSource reportedE3
Kenneth T. McBrideIndependence not published2022AUDIT COMMITTEECompensation CommitteeSource reportedE3
Lynne M. LaubeIndependence not published2020AUDIT COMMITTEECompensation CommitteeSource reportedE3
Tim ChenNot independentChairNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
AUDIT COMMITTEENot publishedAnthony Ling, Kenneth T. McBride, Lynne M. LaubeNot described in the published record
Compensation CommitteeNot publishedKenneth T. McBride, Lynne M. LaubeNot described in the published record
Committee RecordAUDIT COMMITTEE: Chair not stated; Members Anthony Ling; Kenneth T. McBride; Lynne M. Laube
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_record:18
Committee AppointmentAnthony Ling: member, AUDIT COMMITTEE
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_appointment:19
Committee AppointmentKenneth T. McBride: member, AUDIT COMMITTEE
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_appointment:20
Committee AppointmentLynne M. Laube: member, AUDIT COMMITTEE
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_appointment:21
Committee RecordCompensation Committee: Chair not stated; Members Kenneth T. McBride; Lynne M. Laube
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_record:22
Committee AppointmentKenneth T. McBride: member, Compensation Committee
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_appointment:23
Committee AppointmentLynne M. Laube: member, Compensation Committee
Source reportedE6
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:committee_appointment:24

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerTim Chen, Chief Executive Officer
Source reportedE2
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:leadership_role:17
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
bind
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingNRDS (NASDAQ)
Source reportedE1
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:security_listing:25
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 23, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameNERDWALLET, INC.
Source reportedE1
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:37ab7946-5a1d-4963-ac04-8b215dd701fe:entity_status:3

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

This record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.

Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
6 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 23, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    SEC DEF 14A 0001625278-26-000033
    sec def 14a. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved Sep 12, 2026. Cited by 7 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    DEF 14A nrds-20260414.htm
    sec proxy. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    NRDS DEF 14A executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved May 5, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    NRDS DEF 14A executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved May 5, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  6. E6
    AUDIT COMMITTEE
    governance_people_committees. sec proxy. Cited by 7 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 23, 2026
  • Jennifer E. Ceran seat on NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2026-04-14.
  • John T.C. Lee executive of NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2026-04-14.
  • Sam Yount executive of NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2026-04-14.
  • Anthony Ling seat on NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2025-01-01.
  • Kenneth T. McBride seat on NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2022-01-01.
  • Lynne M. Laube seat on NERDWALLET, INC., effective 2020-01-01.
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  1. Overview
  2. Monitoring4
  3. Leadership8
  4. Board5
  5. Committees2
  6. Control and voting0
  7. Authority to act4
  8. Financials1
  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims3
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people12
  17. Subject and corrections6
  18. Evidence6
  19. Version historyvpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

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    NERDWALLET, INC.Company
  • John T.C. LeePerson
  • Sam YountPerson
  • David CovellPerson
  • Ekumene LysongePerson
  • Jun Hyung LeePerson
  • Nicholas TatumPerson
  • Sam MischnerPerson
  • Tim ChenPerson
  • Anthony LingPerson
  • Jennifer E. CeranPerson
  • Kenneth T. McBridePerson
  • Lynne M. LaubePerson
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    OverviewNERDWALLET, INC.
  • MonitoringNERDWALLET, INC.
  • LeadershipNERDWALLET, INC.
  • BoardNERDWALLET, INC.
  • CommitteesNERDWALLET, INC.
  • Control and votingNERDWALLET, INC.
  • Authority to actNERDWALLET, INC.
  • FinancialsNERDWALLET, INC.
  • GovernanceNERDWALLET, INC.
  • RiskNERDWALLET, INC.
  • AI oversightNERDWALLET, INC.
  • LegalNERDWALLET, INC.
  • CompensationNERDWALLET, INC.
  • Other published claimsNERDWALLET, INC.
  • Coverage gapsNERDWALLET, INC.
  • Linked peopleNERDWALLET, INC.
  • Subject and correctionsNERDWALLET, INC.
  • EvidenceNERDWALLET, INC.
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