---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-055893"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CCOI"
cik: "0001158324"
company_name: "COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T00:25:35.967683+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cogent appoints Deneen Howell to board; stockholders approve board expansion to nine

## Summary
- Deneen Howell, age 50, attorney with media/exec compensation expertise, joins board after stockholders approved bylaws to increase board size to nine.
- Stockholders voted ~92% of outstanding shares; all seven director nominees elected with strong majorities (e.g., Schaeffer 41.3M for).
- Bylaw amendment passed 41.9M for vs 75K against; board size increased to nine directors.
- Ratification of EY as auditor passed 41.9M for vs 2.4M against; advisory say-on-pay approved 39.6M for vs 2.4M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-055893
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CCOI
- cik: 0001158324
- company_name: COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922055893/0001104659-22-055893-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922055893/tm229411d2_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-055893.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Deneen Howell was appointed as Director at COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 4, 2022, Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Ms. Deneen Howell as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922055893/0001104659-22-055893-index.htm

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