---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327607-23-000095"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MYFW"
cik: "0001327607"
company_name: "First Western Financial Inc"
filed_at: "2023-06-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T18:50:16.816515+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Western Financial shareholders elect 11 directors, ratify Crowe LLP as auditor for 2023

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with over 5.7M votes for each; Scott C. Wylie received 6,047,629 votes for.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as independent auditor passed with 7,307,624 votes for, 165,842 against.
- Broker non-votes of 1,188,028 on director elections.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327607-23-000095
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MYFW
- cik: 0001327607
- company_name: First Western Financial Inc
- filed_at: 2023-06-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327607/000132760723000095/0001327607-23-000095-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327607/000132760723000095/myfw-20230621.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  First Western Financial Inc shareholders approved Election of eleven directors at the 2023-06-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-21
  source text: The Company held its annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on June 21, 2023. At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders (i) elected eleven directors to serve on the Company’s board of directors until the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders or each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal and (ii) ratified the appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327607/000132760723000095/0001327607-23-000095-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  First Western Financial Inc shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of Crowe LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-06-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-21
  source text: The Company held its annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on June 21, 2023. At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders (i) elected eleven directors to serve on the Company’s board of directors until the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of shareholders or each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal and (ii) ratified the appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327607/000132760723000095/0001327607-23-000095-index.htm

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