---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001529628-23-000061"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SND"
cik: "0001529628"
company_name: "Smart Sand, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T04:54:57.652588+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smart Sand stockholders elect Spurlin and Pawlenty to board; ratify auditor, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- Sharon Spurlin and Timothy J. Pawlenty elected as Class I directors for three-year terms.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as auditor for 2023: 30,010,303 for, 464,668 against, 148,638 abstain.
- Advisory approval of 2022 named executive officer compensation: 19,748,622 for, 1,403,377 against, 333,027 abstain.
- Broker non-votes were 9,138,583 on director elections and say-on-pay; none on auditor ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001529628-23-000061
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SND
- cik: 0001529628
- company_name: Smart Sand, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529628/000152962823000061/0001529628-23-000061-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529628/000152962823000061/snd-20230606.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Smart Sand, Inc. shareholders approved Election of two Class I directors to serve until 2026 annual meeting at the 2023-06-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-06
  source text: The stockholders elected Sharon Spurlin and Timothy J. Pawlenty to serve as Class I members of the Company’s board of directors for a three-year term.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529628/000152962823000061/0001529628-23-000061-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Smart Sand, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-06-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-06
  source text: The voting results for this proposal were 30,010,303 shares for, 464,668 shares against, and 148,638 shares abstained.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529628/000152962823000061/0001529628-23-000061-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Smart Sand, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers for fiscal year 2022 at the 2023-06-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-06
  source text: The voting results for this proposal were 19,748,622 shares for, 1,403,377 shares against, 333,027 shares abstained, and 9,138,583 shares were broker non-votes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529628/000152962823000061/0001529628-23-000061-index.htm

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