---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001604028-22-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WMS"
cik: "0001604028"
company_name: "ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-07-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T09:59:45.161505+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Advanced Drainage Systems elects Kelly Gast to board of directors

## Summary
- Kelly Gast elected director with 72.8M votes for, 0.4M against, 0.9M abstentions.
- Gast is CFO of Bayer's Crop Science division, previously SVP & CFO of Bayer US.
- Stockholders ratified Deloitte as auditor for FY2023 with 73.9M votes for, 1.5M against.
- Advisory vote approved exec compensation (69.5M for, 3.3M against); frequency set at one year.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001604028-22-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WMS
- cik: 0001604028
- company_name: ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-07-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1604028/000160402822000043/0001604028-22-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1604028/000160402822000043/wms-20220721.htm

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