---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000701347-24-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPF"
cik: "0000701347"
company_name: "CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T06:52:44.357496+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Central Pacific Financial shareholders elect 11 directors and approve say-on-pay and auditor ratification

## Summary
- Elected 11 director nominees with votes in favor ranging from 21.15 million for Paul J. Kosasa to 22.20 million for Robert K.W.H. Nobriga.
- Non-binding say-on-pay resolution passed with 21,671,790 votes for, 548,742 against, and 39,573 abstentions.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2024 approved with 23,735,434 votes for, 80,807 against, and 34,545 abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000701347-24-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPF
- cik: 0000701347
- company_name: CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701347/000070134724000018/0000701347-24-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701347/000070134724000018/cpf-20240425.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of Crowe LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-25
  source text: Ratification of appointment of Crowe LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701347/000070134724000018/0000701347-24-000018-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Election of eleven nominees as directors at the 2024-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-25
  source text: On April 25, 2024, Central Pacific Financial Corp. (the “Company”) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders at which the Company’s shareholders voted upon and approved (i) the election of eleven (11) nominees as directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701347/000070134724000018/0000701347-24-000018-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CENTRAL PACIFIC FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote to approve compensation of the Company’s named executive officers at the 2024-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-25
  source text: Non-binding advisory vote to approve compensation of the Company’s named executive officers (“Say-On-Pay”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701347/000070134724000018/0000701347-24-000018-index.htm

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