---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001217234-23-000107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CDNA"
cik: "0001217234"
company_name: "CareDx, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T20:41:52.588670+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CareDx shareholders approve board declassification and officer exculpation at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- Elected four Class III directors (Goldberg, Maag, Seeto, Torres) to serve until 2026 annual meeting; 87.5% quorum.
- Ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for FY2023 with 46,986,181 votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 38,609,980 votes for (94.7% of votes cast excluding broker non-votes).
- Approved board declassification (40,276,022 for) and officer exculpation (38,837,317 for) amendments.
- All proposals passed; broker non-votes of 6,597,258 on proposals requiring non-discretionary votes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001217234-23-000107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CDNA
- cik: 0001217234
- company_name: CareDx, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1217234/000121723423000107/0001217234-23-000107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1217234/000121723423000107/cdna-20230615.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CareDx, Inc.: Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation to reflect new Delaware law provisions regarding officer exculpation (effective 2023-06-16).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-06-16
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the stockholders of the Company approved (i) an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to provide for the gradual declassification of the board of directors (the “Board of Directors”) of the Company (the “Declassification Amendment”) and (ii) an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to reflect new Delaware law provisions regarding officer exculpation (the “Officer Exculpation Amendment”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1217234/000121723423000107/0001217234-23-000107-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  CareDx, Inc.: Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation to provide for gradual declassification of the Board of Directors (effective 2023-06-16).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-06-16
  source text: On June 15, 2023, CareDx, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). At the Annual Meeting, the stockholders of the Company approved (i) an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to provide for the gradual declassification of the board of directors (the “Board of Directors”) of the Company (the “Declassification Amendment”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1217234/000121723423000107/0001217234-23-000107-index.htm

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