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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001514416-23-000094"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BAND"
cik: "0001514416"
company_name: "Bandwidth Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T18:12:16.995719+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bandwidth reports 2023 annual meeting results; approves incentive plan and directors

## Summary
- Elected David A. Morken and Rebecca G. Bottorff as Class III directors with ~29.2M and ~28.9M votes for, respectively.
- Approved Second Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive Award Plan: ~21.6M for, ~13.0M against.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2023: ~37.4M for, ~128.6K against.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: ~32.2M for, ~2.2M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001514416-23-000094
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BAND
- cik: 0001514416
- company_name: Bandwidth Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1514416/000151441623000094/0001514416-23-000094-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1514416/000151441623000094/band-20230518.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001514416-23-000094.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Bandwidth Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The stockholders elected the persons named below as Class III directors to serve until the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1514416/000151441623000094/0001514416-23-000094-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Bandwidth Inc. shareholders approved Approval, on an Advisory Basis, of the Compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1514416/000151441623000094/0001514416-23-000094-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Bandwidth Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1514416/000151441623000094/0001514416-23-000094-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Bandwidth Inc. shareholders approved Approval of the Company's Second Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive Award Plan at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The stockholders approved the Company's Second Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive Award Plan.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1514416/000151441623000094/0001514416-23-000094-index.htm

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