---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001309402-25-000111"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPRE"
cik: "0001309402"
company_name: "Green Plains Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T18:08:55.870282+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Two directors not re-elected at annual meeting; all proposals pass

## Summary
- Directors Alain Treuer and Ejnar Knudsen III did not stand for re-election on June 6, 2025, ending their terms.
- Departures are not the result of any disagreement with the Company’s operations, policies, or practices.
- All eight director nominees were elected; Kimberly Wagner received 6.18M withhold votes but was still elected.
- Shareholders ratified KPMG as independent auditor for FY2025 (48.3M for, 0.38M against).
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 36.3M for, 4.97M against, and 142k abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001309402-25-000111
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPRE
- cik: 0001309402
- company_name: Green Plains Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000111/0001309402-25-000111-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000111/gpre-20250606.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000111
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000111.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001309402-25-000111.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alain Treuer departed as Director at Green Plains Inc..
  - Action: did not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 6, 2025, Alain Treuer and Ejnar Knudsen III did not stand for re-election at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders, which effectively ended their terms as directors on our Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000111/0001309402-25-000111-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ejnar Knudsen III departed as Director at Green Plains Inc..
  - Action: did not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 6, 2025, Alain Treuer and Ejnar Knudsen III did not stand for re-election at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders, which effectively ended their terms as directors on our Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940225000111/0001309402-25-000111-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.