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accession: "0001104659-21-116394"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SPOK"
cik: "0001289945"
company_name: "Spok Holdings, Inc"
filed_at: "2021-09-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T03:09:18.809317+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Spok Holdings approves $575K in retention bonuses for two officers tied to change in control

## Summary
- CFO/COO Michael Wallace receives $400,000 retention bonus; Corporate Secretary/Treasurer Sharon Woods Keisling receives $175,000.
- Bonuses payable in single lump sum upon consummation of a sale or change in control by May 1, 2022.
- Payment subject to continued employment through closing; program follows strategic alternatives review announced Sept 3, 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-116394
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SPOK
- cik: 0001289945
- company_name: Spok Holdings, Inc
- filed_at: 2021-09-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289945/000110465921116394/0001104659-21-116394-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289945/000110465921116394/tm2127777d1_8k.htm

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