How Verification Works

A board appointment, qualification, or membership marked VERIFIED on Part of the Board has been individually confirmed by an administrator against a specific method — a regulatory filing, an exchange filing, a corporate governance office, a company secretary, an annual report, the issuing institution, documentary evidence, or a commercial registry. That method is disclosed publicly next to the claim it supports.

A member cannot verify themselves, or anyone else. Adding an appointment or a qualification to a record, or requesting that one be reviewed, is a signal that a review is wanted — it is never, by itself, sufficient to mark anything verified. Only an administrator’s own recorded review does that.

The underlying evidence itself — the filing, the letter, the registry extract — is not published. What is public is the fact that a review took place, who conducted it in the sense of which method was used, and when.

A claim without the VERIFIED mark is not a negative claim. It most often means a review has not yet reached that item, not that it was reviewed and rejected. Part of the Board would rather show an honest, partial record than infer a status no administrator has actually confirmed.

Some verifications carry an expiry. Where they do, the record reflects that automatically once the date passes, without requiring anyone to intervene — a lapsed verification is shown as lapsed, not silently left to read as current.