Nicolet Bankshares annual meeting elects all 12 director nominees; say-on-pay passes with 67% support

NICOLET BANKSHARES INC

All 12 director nominees elected; highest vote: Glen E. Tellock with 14.9M for, lowest: John N. Dykema with 13.8M for.
Ratification of Forvis Mazars, LLP as auditor for FY 2026: 16.86M for, 31,390 against, 35,540 abstain.
Non-binding say-on-pay approved: 10.08M for (67.1%), 4.94M against (32.9%), 87,770 abstain, 1.83M broker non-votes.
Broker non-votes of 1.82M shares did not count toward director election or say-on-pay but were present for auditor ratification.

Key facts

Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.

Shareholder Votes SEC 8-K Item 5.07 confidence 0.95

NICOLET BANKSHARES INC shareholders approved Approval, on a non-binding basis, of the compensation paid to Nicolet’s named executive officers at the 2026-05-18 meeting.

Proposal: say on pay
Outcome: passed
Meeting: 2026-05-18

Exact text from the filing

Proposal 3: Approval, on a non-binding basis, of the compensation paid to Nicolet’s named executive officers. For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 10,078,861 4,938,131 87,770 1,825,052

View on SEC.gov

Shareholder Votes SEC 8-K Item 5.07 confidence 0.95

NICOLET BANKSHARES INC shareholders approved Ratification of the selection of Forvis Mazars, LLP as Nicolet's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 at the 2026-05-18 meeting.

Proposal: auditor ratification
Outcome: passed
Meeting: 2026-05-18

Exact text from the filing

Proposal 2: Ratification of the selection of Forvis Mazars, LLP as Nicolet’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 16,862,884 31,390 35,540 N/A

View on SEC.gov

Shareholder Votes SEC 8-K Item 5.07 confidence 0.95

NICOLET BANKSHARES INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2026-05-18 meeting.

Proposal: director election
Outcome: passed
Meeting: 2026-05-18

Exact text from the filing

Proposal 1: Election of Directors. Name For Withheld Broker Non-Votes Michael E. Daniels 14,214,456 892,103 1,823,255 Robert B. Atwell 14,869,264 237,296 1,823,254 Carl J. Chaney 14,261,504 842,907 1,825,403 John N. Dykema 13,750,490 1,353,920 1,825,404 Janet E. Godwin 14,302,512 801,899 1,825,403 Matthew J. Hayek 14,311,522 792,889 1,825,403 Donald J. Long, Jr. 13,765,700 1,338,712 1,825,402 Tracy S. McCormick 14,265,913 838,498 1,825,403 Susan L. Merkatoris 14,051,025 1,053,384 1,825,405 Oliver Pierce Smith 14,267,807 836,604 1,825,403 Glen E. Tellock 14,910,311 194,103 1,825,400 Robert J. Weyers 14,042,163 1,062,247 1,825,404

View on SEC.gov

Browse all shareholder votes →

NICOLET BANKSHARES INC filing history →

Source: SEC EDGAR

accession 0001174850-26-000118

view filing index on sec.gov

view primary document

Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · Plain text

This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice. See methodology for how this pipeline works.